Chrysodema (Chrysodema) eximia Laporte de Castelnau & Gory 1835
Creators: name: Frank, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Chrysodema
Chrysodema eximia

description: Key to the Chrysodema (Chrysodema) eximia species-group
1 Ventral side dark-violet, coppery-red or brown............................................................… 2
– Ventral side metallic green.............................................................................. 4
2 Dorsal side of head the same colour as ventral side of entire body................................................ 3
– Dorsal side of head green or blue-violet; pronotum and elytra mostly blue to violet-black, rarely brown-bronze or green. Intercostae always well developed. Parameres very broadly regularly navicular, widest at mid-length, narrowly open at apical fifth; apex of penis broadly triangular. Taiwan. Figs 18–24, 65, 66............. C. (C.) eximia berliozi Descarpentries, 1948
3 Lateral sides of ventrites II–IV densely macropunctate in entire width, 1 st costa mostly parallel with suture, sometimes only moderately bent in apical quarter; intercostae can be well developed or slightly indicated in some (rarely in all) intercostal intervals; mostly green, can be red-bronze or brown, antennae and tarsi never yellow. Generally more slender, length/width ratio: ♂♂ (n=6) 2.89–2.95(3.15) (average 2.95); ♀♀ (n = 75) 2.69–2.98(3.05) (average 2.85). Parameres broadly regularly navicular, widest at mid-length, narrowly open at apical third; apex of penis narrowly triangular. Philippines: Luzon Is. and Babuyan Isls. Figs 1–5, 13–17, 63, 64....................... C. (C.) eximia eximia Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1835
– Lateral sides of ventrites II–IV densely macropunctate at basal half and sparsely macropunctate at apical half; 1 st costa bent in apical quarter and running obliquely to suture; intercostae absent; always brown, antennae and tarsi pale brown or yellow. Generally more broad length/width ratio: ♂♂ (n=14) 2.65–2.94 (average 2.78); ♀♀ (n = 46) 2.62–2.91(3.13) (average 2.75). Parameres broadly regularly navicular, widest at mid-length, narrowly open at apical half; apex of penis broadly triangular. Philippines: Palawan Is..................................................... C. (C.) fuscitarsis Kerremans, 1895
4 1 st costa mostly parallel with suture; elytra green, macropunctation at intercostal intervals regular. Generally more slender, length/width ratio: ♂♂ (n=25) 2.80–3.15 (average 2.95); ♀♀ (n = 34) 2.50–3.06 (average 2.83). Parameres broadly irregularly navicular, widest at mid-length strongly narrowed at apical half, narrowly open at apical third; apex of penis broadly triangular. Philippines: Mindanao Is., Dinagat Is., Leyte is., Samar Is. and Panay Is. ................. C. (C.) dohrnii Saunders, 1874
– 1 st costa bent in apical quarter and running obliquely to suture; elytra green, macropunctation at intercostal intervals irregular. Generally broader, length/width ratio: ♂ 2.75; ♀♀ (n = 4) 2.63–2.72 (average 2.69). Parameres narrowly regularly navicular widest at mid-length, broadly open at apical half; apex of penis narrowly pointed. Philippines: Palawan Is................................................................................... C. (C.) gottwaldi Frank & Sekerka, 2020
description: Published as part of Frank, David, 2022, Studies on the genus Chrysodema (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae) part II., pp. 507-543 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on page 509, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7397816