Chrysochroa alternans, WATERHOUSE, 1888

Han, Taeman, Kang, Taehwa, Jeong, Jongchel, Lee, Youngbo, Chung, Hyojung, Park, Sangwook, Lee, Seunghwan, Kim, Kigyoung & Park, Haechul, 2012, Pseudocryptic speciation of Chrysochroa fulgidissima (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with two new species from Korea, China and Vietnam, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1), pp. 71-98 : 96

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00763.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5479620
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2A424C0F-FFAB-FFE9-148E-FB3B813A84D5
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Chrysochroa alternans
status	stat. nov.

Treatment

CHRYSOCHROA ALTERNANS WATERHOUSE, 1888 View in CoL STAT. REV. ( FIGS 8G, H View Figure 8 , 9–16D View Figure 9 View Figure 10 View Figure 11 View Figure 12 View Figure 13 View Figure 14 View Figure 15 View Figure 16 )

Examined specimens: 5♂♂, 5♀♀, Nakagusuku , Okinawa, Japan. 19.vii.2008 (no collector) .

Diagnosis: 29.6–35.3 mm long and 9.8–11.4 mm wide in males, 34.0– 37.9 mm long and 11.6– 11.4 mm wide in females. Body elliptic, stout; median longitudinal groove of head narrow, deep, with metallic red circle ( Fig. 9D View Figure 9 ); vertex wide between eyes distinctly narrower than base; pronotal and elytral punctuation distinctly large; lateral margin of pronotum arcuate at middle, weakly sinuate at base ( Fig. 10D View Figure 10 ); first and second costae of elytra prominent at dorsoanterior portion ( Fig. 11D View Figure 11 ); prosternal anterior margin simple; prosternal process flattened or sometimes very weakly convex ( Fig. 12D View Figure 12 ); lateral margins of elytra subparallel to middle; ninth ventrite ( Fig. 14D View Figure 14 ) simple; aedeagus ( Fig. 15D View Figure 15 ) subcylindrical, weakly arcuate laterally; apical portion of median lobe exceeding parameres, broadly, bluntly pointed at apex ( Fig. 16D View Figure 16 ).