Eucorydia coerulea (Shelford, 1906)

Qiu, Lu, Che, Yan-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae), ZooKeys 709, pp. 17-56 : 41-42

Eucorydia coerulea (Shelford, 1906) Fig. 12 A–C

Corydia coerulea Shelford, 1906: 272 (male holotype, "Mt. Matang, 3000 feet"); Hanitsch 1915: 125; Hanitsch 1923: 466.

Eucorydia coerulea : Hebard 1929: 14; Bruijning 1948: 41, 149; Princis 1963: 81.

Type material examined.

HOLOTYPE of Corydia coerulea , male (OUM, TYPE ORTH 203), MALAYSIA: two same labels: "N. W. BORNEO, Sarawak, about 3500 ft., Mt. Matang, nr. Kuching. Coll. June. 00. Pres. 1905 by the Sarawak Museum."; "TYPE. ♂. R. SHELFORD, Corydia Coerulea . T. E. S., Lon., 1906, p. 272-3."; "Matang, 3600/ June 189 1900"; "Eucorydia coerulea Princis, 1963"; "1905/ 599"; "TYPE ORTH: Corydia coerulea Shelford./ HOPE DEPT. OXFORD".

Diagnosis.

Male overall length 13.5 mm, tegmen length 10 mm (Shelford, 1906). Body in dorsal view brilliant metallic blue. Head slightly metallic blue. Tegmina metallic blue, with some obscure orange spots on the disc (Shelford, 1906), each lateral margin of tegmina with an elongate, narrow yellow spot. Wings blackish, hyaline. Mesonotum and metanotum purplish brown. Legs slightly metallic blue. Abdomen orange both in dorsal and ventral view, in dorsal view, the last three segments metallic blue, subgenital plate bright metallic blue.

This species is similar to E. aenea , but its tegmina has no white pubescence, the last three segments of abdomen are much more metallic than those of E. aenea , and the remaining segments of abdomen are totally orange while E. aenea has the median of the abdomen blackish.

Distribution.

Malaysia: Sarawak.