Aetheomorpha coerulea Jacoby 1892
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Description
Aetheomorpha coerulea (Jacoby, 1892)
(Figures 8A–I, 12H)
Jacoby, 1892: 882 (orig.: Aspidolopha coerulea; type locality: Burma, Carin Chebà; type deposited: MSNG); 1908: 134; Clavareau, 1913: 44 (catalogue); Kimoto and Gressitt, 1981: 297 (transfer to Aetheomorpha; Thailand, Vietnam); Regalin and Medvedev, 2010: 564 (catalogue); Medvedev, 2010: 198 (Yunnan: Xishuangbanna).
Material examined
CHINA: Hainan: one male, one female, Jianfengling, 12 August 1981, leg. Maobin Gu; Yunnan: two males, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 12 July 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang; two females, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 13 July 1957, leg. Shuyong Wang; one male, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 19 May 1958, leg. Yiran Zhang; one male, six females, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 6 June 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng; one female, Xishuangbanna, Menghai, 21 July 1958, leg. Fuji Pu; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengzhe, 25 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang; one male, Xishuangbanna, Meng’a, 9 August 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 20 May 1958, leg. Facai Zhang; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengsong, 24 July 1958, leg. Leyi Zheng; one female, Ruili, Wanting, 10 June 1992, leg. Decheng Yuan (IZ-CAS).
Distribution
China (Hainan, Yunnan); Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia.
Remarks
This species is well defined by its characteristic colouration: elytra are completely bluish black and pronotum is fulvous with a central black band. Also, the aedeagal apex slightly bent ventrally; the spermathecal duct is long, irregularly coiled dozens of times and the dorsal central sclerite is sub-oblong.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- IZ-CAS
- Event date
- 1957-07-12 , 1957-07-13 , 1958-05-19 , 1958-05-20 , 1958-06-06 , 1958-07-21 , 1958-07-24 , 1958-07-25 , 1958-08-09 , 1981-08-12 , 1992-06-10
- Verbatim event date
- 1957-07-12 , 1957-07-13 , 1958-05-19 , 1958-05-20 , 1958-06-06 , 1958-07-21 , 1958-07-24 , 1958-07-25 , 1958-08-09 , 1981-08-12 , 1992-06-10
- Scientific name authorship
- Jacoby
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Aetheomorpha
- Species
- coerulea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aetheomorpha coerulea Jacoby, 1892 sec. Wang & Zhou, 2012
References
- Jacoby M. 1892. Description of the new genera and species of the phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by Sign. L. Fea in Burma. Ann Mus Civic Stor Nat Genova. 32: 869 - 899.
- Clavareau H. 1913. Chrysomelidae: 5. Megascelinae, 6. Megalopodinae, 7. Clytrinae, 8. Cryptocephalinae, 9. Chlamydinae, 10. Lamprosomatinae. In: Junk W, Schenkling S, editors. Coleopterorun Catalogus, Pars 53. Berlin: W. Junk. 278 pp.
- Kimoto S, Gressitt JL. 1981. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. 2. Clytrinae, Cryptocephalinae and Chlamisinae, Lamprosomatinae and Chrysomelinae. Pacific Insects. 23: 286 - 391.
- Regalin R, Medvedev LN. 2010. Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini. In Lobl, I, Smetana A, editors. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books. p. 564 - 580.
- Medvedev LN. 2010. New and interesting Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the collection of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt. Erfurt: Veroffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt. 29 / 2010: 195 - 199.