Clytra (Clytraria) atraphaxidis asiatica Chûjô, 1941

Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2011, A synopsis on the Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini), Zootaxa 3067, pp. 1-25 : 8-9

3. Clytra (Clytraria) atraphaxidis asiatica Chûjô, 1941

( Figs. 3 A–G, 12C).

Chûjô, 1941: 455 (orig.: Clytra atraphaxidis var. asiatica ; type locality: Kankyo-Hokudo, Korea); Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961: 90 ( Clytra asiatica ; Hopei, Kansu, Shensi, Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Shantung, Liaoning); Regalin & Medvedev, 2010: 566 ( Clytra atraphaxidis asiatica ).

Material examined. CHINA: Beijing: 13, Badaling, 28.VI.1962, coll. Shuyong Wang; Gansu: 13, 6ƤƤ, Gaolan, 21.VI.1951, coll. Unknown; 13, 3ƤƤ, Tongwei, 21.VI.1951, coll. Unknown; Hebei: 13, 1Ƥ, Baile, Yuxian, 5.VIII.1964, coll. Bingqian Li; 13, 1Ƥ, Small Wutai Mountain, 8.VIII.1964, coll. Yinheng Han; Jilin: 13, Chao Yang, Chili, 30.VI.1921, coll. A. P. Jacot; Liaoning: 13, Fushun, 1984, coll. Chuanling Jin; Qinghai: 3ƤƤ, Guide, 29.VI.1957, coll. Yiran Zhang; Shaanxi: 13, 1Ƥ, Foping, 27.VI.1999, coll. Jian Yao; Shandong: 1Ƥ, Kunyu Mountain, 14.VI.1964, coll. Unknown; Shanghai: 1Ƥ, 1947, coll. Marist Brothers; Shanxi: 23, 2ƤƤ, Taiyuan, 23.VI.1959, coll. Unknown; Yunnan: 13, 1Ƥ, 1957, coll. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Beijing, Gansu, Hebei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanxi, Yunnan), North Korea, Russian (Far East), South Korea,

Remarks. Originally described as C. atraphaxidis var. asiatica , it was later elevated by Gressitt & Kimoto (1961) to a valid species, C. asiatica . Recently some authors have treated it as one of the four valid subspecies of C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis ( Medvedev, 1961; Regalin & Medvedev, 2010).

According to Medvedev (1961), C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis varies greatly in the pronotal color pattern: the number of the spots usually one to seven, isolated completely or connected somehow, occasionally totally diappearing. The subspecies of this species are distinguished mainly by the pronotal color patterns.

C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis asiatica differs from other subspecies by the following character states: body much narrower; pronotum with a single big, black marking, and punctured on each basal side; each elytron with a basal oblique band and a transverse band at apical one-third.

This subspecies occurs in the north of China and occasionally in the south of China.

Figures

FIGURE 3. C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis asiatica: A, dorsal pattern; B, maxilla; C, labium; D, male genitalia in dorsal view; E, male genitalia in lateral view; F, male genitalia in ventral view; G, spermatheca. Scales = 0.5 mm.