New record of China.

China (Hainan) (new country record); Myanmar; Vietnam; Thailand (Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Bellamy 2008a, Ek-Amnuay 2008).

The adult has been found in Sanya, Hainan Province with Catoxantha brunnea hainana (Kurosawa, 1991) feeding together on Pterospermum heterophyllum leaves.

Description:

Male (Fig. 2): Body (n = 4) length: 33.3–36.8 mm, width: 12.1–13.5 mm, length/width ratio: 2.60–2.94. Body polychromatic; head, pronotum and base of elytra densely punctate. Head bicoloured, frons and both sides of posterior margin metallic purple, other areas metallic blue; antenna black with 11 antennomeres, antennomeres V–XI expanded. Pronotum tricoloured, metallic purple-red at sides, with a broad metallic green or blue stripe at median, more than half of pronotum; narrow in front and broader behind, widest at basal third. Scutellum absent. Elytra four-coloured, bearing two large blue to black bands at the front half and behind half of each elytron, their borders reaching the suture and the lateral margins, with metallic yellow-orange bands and metallic-greenish suffusion at base and apex and a broad creamy-yellow band at middle; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, with one small spine at the apex of each elytron, widest at nearly half of elytra. All tibiae and femora metallic blue to purple-red; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion. Abdominal sternum and ventrites metallic blue to purple, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip. The characters of the male genitalia are shown in Fig. 2.

Figure 2.  

Chrysochroa (Chroodema) corbetti (Kerremans, 1893), male, from Sanya, Hainan Province: a dorsal view of habitus; b ventral view of habitus; c dorsal view of aedeagus. Scale bars: a, b = 10.0 mm; c = 1.0 mm.

Female: not examined.

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Myanmar; Laos; Vietnam; India; Thailand (Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Hołyński 2009).

All individuals found in China with tibiae and femora metallic purple-red.

Description:

Male (Fig. 3): Body (n = 1) length: 37.4 mm, width: 13.0 mm, length/width ratio: 2.88. Body polychromatic and shiny; head, pronotum and elytra densely punctate. Head tricoloured, metallic green or blue, tinted with coppery-red at middle of frons. Pronotum five-coloured, metallic purple-red at sides with a broad longitudinal dark blue stripe at median, with transition areas of metallic blue, green and orange between the two colours; narrow in front and broader behind, widest at base. Scutellum absent. Elytra five-coloured, the basal and apical parts tinted with two large metallic purple-red spots on each elytron, with a narrow metallic orange ring around each spot on the periphery, followed by a wide metallic light blue ring around; a broad creamy-yellow patch across the middle, with two narrow dark blue bands in front and behind the creamy-yellow patch; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, with one small spine at apex of each elytron, widest at nearly half of elytra. All tibiae and femora metallic purple-red; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion. Abdominal sternum and ventrites metallic yellow-orange to purple, with dense setae, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip.

Figure 3.  

Chrysochroa (Pyranthe) ephippigera (White, 1843) from Yingjiang, Yunnan: a male dorsal view; b male ventral view; c female dorsal view; d female ventral view. Scale bar = 10.0 mm.

Female (Fig. 3): Body (n = 3) length: 39.4–41.6 mm, width: 13.2–14.0 mm, length/width ratio: 2.85–3.08. The female specimen differs from the male in the colour spots. Setae on the ventral side of body more sparse. Ventrite V without triangular excavation at tip. Other morphological descriptions refer to male specimens.

New record of China.

New record of China.

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Bangladesh; India; Laos; Thailand (Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Hołyński 2009, Kubáň 2016).

The purple part is replaced by light green in most specimens of the species. Since the first individual found in China was incomplete, we provisionally classified it as the subspecies indica based on the subspecies distribution map of Hołyński (2009).

Description:

Sex unknown (Fig. 4): Body trichromatic and shiny. Pronotum transverse, bicoloured, dark green with two purple longitudinal stripes on lateral margins; anterior margin nearly straight; lateral margins concave at half of the base; posterior margin bisinuate. Scutellum not distinct. Elytra tricoloured, dark green with two large, transverse, white stripes behind the middle, terminal areas purple; widest behind half of the elytra, each elytron with four convex costae; apical half of lateral margins serrated, apices of elytra nearly truncate with one spine at apex of each elytron. All tibiae metallic green.

Figure 4.  

A crushed individual of Demochroa (Demoxantha) gratiosa Deyrolle, 1864 from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province; the photo taken by Lu Qiu in Nabang Town on 3 June 2018.

New record of China.

China (Yunnan) (new country record); India; Bhutan; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; Indonesia (Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Bellamy 2008a, Kubáň 2016).

The living individual is shown in Fig. 5.

Figure 5.  

A male living individual of Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861) from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province: a dorsal view; b ventral view.

Description:

Male (Fig. 6): Body (n = 1) length: 51.1–51.5 mm, width: 18.2–19.1 mm, length/width ratio: 2.67–2.83. Body trichromatic and moderately shiny; head, pronotum and elytra densely punctate. Head tricoloured, metallic green to violet, frons with an obviously longitudinal depression along the middle. Pronotum transverse, subtrapezoidal; bicoloured, metallic orange-red with two dark purple longitudinal stripes on both sides of middle line; lateral margins protruding strongly at half of the base, widest behind the middle. Scutellum absent. Elytra bicoloured, dark violet to black with two large, transverse, white stripes behind the middle; widest at nearly half of elytra, each elytron with eight convex costae; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, apices of elytra nearly truncate with two small spines at apex of each elytron. All tibiae and femora metallic green to dark purple; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion, inner margin at apex densely setose. Ventrites yellow, non-metallic lustre, each ventrite with two large black spots at both sides of the base, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip. The characters of the male genitalia are shown in Fig. 6.

Figure 6.  

Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861) from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province: a male dorsal view; b male ventral view; c dorsal view of aedeagus; d female dorsal view; e female ventral view. Scale bars: a, b, d, e = 10.0 mm; c = 1.0 mm.

Female (Fig. 6): Body (n = 1) length: 51.6 mm, width: 19.1 mm, length/width ratio: 2.70. Ventrite V without triangular excavation at tip. Other morphological descriptions refer to male specimens.

New record of China.

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Bhutan; India; Laos; Malaysia; Vietnam; Thailand (Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Bellamy 2008a, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Kubáň 2016).

The body surface of the living adult with a yellow wax layer formed by powdery substance (Fig. 7).

Figure 7.  

A living individual of Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866 from Mengla, Yunnan Province; the photo taken by Yi-Wei Wang in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences on 13 August 2023.

Description:

Female (Fig. 8): Body (n = 4) length: 23.9–29.8 mm, width: 8.9–11.4 mm, length/width ratio: 2.60–2.68. Body monochromatic metallic green with some metallic yellow, shiny; head and pronotum, densely and larger punctate, elytra very small punctate. Head small, frons with two longitudinal carinae along the eyes. Pronotum transverse, subtrapezoidal with lateral depressions moderate; anterior margin almost straight, lateral margins protruding outwards widely, posterior margin bisinuate, widest at base. Scutellum heart-shaped. Each elytron with eleven convex costae; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, apices of elytra enlarged with three obvious spines at apex of each elytron. Protibia short, slightly incurved, outer margin with weak serrations, apex without distinct protrusion, inner margin at apex densely setose. Anterior margin of ventrite V protrusion at middle.

Figure 8.  

Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866, female, from Mengla, Yunnan: a dorsal view; b ventral view. Scale bar = 10.0 mm.

Male: not examined.