Eucorydia splendida
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Ordo: Blattodea
Familia: Corydiidae
Genus: Eucorydia
Name
Eucorydia splendida Qiu & Che & Wang, 2017 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
HOLOTYPE: CHINA: Yunnan: male (IZCAS), Laowo Township [老窝乡], Lushui County [泸水县], Nujiang Prefecture [怒江州], 1670m, 25.VI.1981, Shu-Yong Wang leg. PARATYPE: CHINA: Yunnan: 1 female (JZZC), Baihualing [百花岭], Mt. Gaoligong [高黎贡山], Baoshan City [保山市], 25.VII.2016, no collector recorded.
Diagnosis
See under E. hilaris and E. xizangensis.
Description
Male: measurements (mm): body length 13.0, overall length 16.2, pronotum length×width 3.8×6.3, tegmen length 13.2. Median size, metallic bluish green with large yellow area (Fig. 9G–H).
Head metallic bluish black, ocelli small but distinct. Pronotum metallic bluish green, with black setae. Mesonotum and metanotum purplish brown. Tegmina in resting position with basal half metallic bluish green, distal half orange entire, the border between the two colors W-shaped, the distal border of the metallic area much more blue than the rest of area; wings totally yellow. Legs brownish black, with black pubescence, spines on the legs brownish black, with apical portion brown.
Abdomen in ventral view bright orange, the last three sternites dark shiny brown, S6 with lateral parts brown, median orange; in dorsal view, bright orange, T6 and T7 with lateral margins narrowly blackish brown, T8 and T9 with median orange, lateral parts black. Supra-anal plate black, hind margin roundly concave, lateral corners round, cerci black (Fig. 10B, No. 1-2); subgenital plate black, styli robust, dark brown.
Genitalia (Fig. 10B): L3 slender, strongly curved, apical portion with a distinct hook, the apex of the curved point of the hook protruding; appendage sclerite with left portion roundly enlarged at the base, distal portion gradually narrowed, apex angular; R2 with left slightly protruded, shape as in Fig. 10B, No. 6, R3 with anterior portion reflexed.
Female: Coloration pattern similar to male, tegmina distinctly shorter than that of male (Fig. 9I–J).
Etymology
The specific epithet “splendida” refers to its bright appearance.
Distribution
China: West Yunnan.
Original Description
- Qiu, L; Che, Y; Wang, Z; 2017: Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae) ZooKeys, (709): 17-56. doi
Images
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![Figure 9. A–J Habitus of Eucorydia species A–C male holotype of E. xizangensis D–F male holotype of E. hilaris [D–F photographed by Zong-Qing Wang, copyright The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (NHM)] G–J E. splendida sp. n.: G–H male holotype I–J female paratype [I–J photographed by Jia-Zhi Zhang]. Scale bars 10 mm.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-5555-017-g009.jpg)
