Anomala cyanipennis Lin, 1999

Zhao, Ming-Zhi, 2021, Contribution to the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Rutelinae) of China and adjacent regions. Part I: descriptions of two new species and remarks on four species, Zootaxa 4903 (4), pp. 578-590 : 588

Anomala cyanipennis Lin, 1999

Anomala cyanipennis Lin, 1999: 162 , 169 [type locality: China, Yunnan, Menghai, Mt. Nannuoshan], fig. 10; Zorn 2006: 258; Zorn & Bezděk 2016: 331; Zorn et al. 2017: 340 [recorded from Laos and Vietnam].

Type material examined. None.

Additional material examined. MYANMAR: 1♂, 1♀ ( ZMPC), MYANMAR N (Burma) Putao, H-500M. 27.04.1998 leg. S. Murzin & V. Siniaev ex. coll. V. Sinaev .

Remarks. This species was previously recorded from China, Laos and Vietnam ( Lin 1999; Zorn et al. 2017). The two specimens from northern Myanmar greatly expand its known northern- and westernmost distribution border. The examined female belongs to an unicolor variation, which is entirely reddish brown. Females of the unicolor form coexist with females of the normal form (with generally yellowish to reddish body and blackish blue elytra, as in the original description) in the populations from northern Laos and northern Vietnam but are underrepresented (Carsten Zorn, personal communication, 2020).

Distribution. China; Laos; Myanmar (new country record); Vietnam.