Smaragdina laboissierei (Pic, 1928)

Duan, Wen-Yuan, Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2022, Two new species of the genus Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) from China, ZooKeys 1082, pp. 1-26 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1082.74323

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9969EEA9-F980-47D1-A559-C5E41E029FF3

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Smaragdina laboissierei
status

 

Smaragdina laboissierei

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Smaragdina laboissierei Pic, 1928: 34 (orig.: Cyaniris laboissierei ; type locality: Tonkin; type deposited: MNHN); Kimoto and Gressitt 1981: 320 ( Smaragdina laboissierei ); Medvedev 1992b: 23 (figure); Medvedev 2010: 264.

Material examined

(n = 2). China: Guangxi province: 1 female, Longzhou, Daqingshan, 19. IV. 1963, coll. Shuyong Wang (IZ-CAS) ; 1 male, Longzhou, Daqingshan, 27. IV. 1963, coll. Shuyong Wang (IZ-CAS).

Measurements

(n = 2). Body length males: 4.4-4.7 mm, females: 5.2-5.5 mm.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi); Vietnam.

Remark.

The Chinese specimens were identified as this species by the yellowish-brown pronotum with a black stripe and the apical process of aedeagus triangular, which is acute and strongly curved downwards. This species was previously only known from Vietnam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Smaragdina