Chrysochroa pseudofulgidissima HAN ET PARK 2012, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Han, Taeman
name: Kang, Taehwa
name: Jeong, Jongchel
name: Lee, Youngbo
name: Chung, Hyojung
name: Park, Sangwook
name: Lee, Seunghwan
name: Kim, Kigyoung
name: Park, Haechul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Chrysochroa
Chrysochroa pseudofulgidissima

description: CHRYSOCHROA PSEUDOFULGIDISSIMA HAN ET PARK SP. NOV. (FIGS 8E, 9–16C)   
 Holotype: 1♂, Mt. JiaTieling (altitude 1123 m), Qiongzhong county, Hainan, China. 8–11.vi.2009. Li Jingke (NAAS: voucher no. 2410).   
 Paratypes: 2♂♂, 2♀♀, same locality as for holotype (SMNH); 4♂♂, 7♀♀, Baise, GuangXi, China. 9.viii.2009. Hui Qin (SMNH); 1♂, 5♀♀, GuangXi, China (no collecting dates or collector) (SMNH); 1♀, GuangXi, China. vii.2006. J. C. Jeong (SMNH); 1♀, Cao bang, Vietnam, 25.vi.2005 (no collector) (SMNH).   
 Description of holotype (Fig. 8E): 32.0 mm long, 9.8 mm wide. Body elliptic, stout, rather convex, broader at posterior half of elytra. Colour strongly and wholly brilliant, dorsal part bright green, with two longitudinal reddish-purple bands on pronotum and elytra, elytral bands pass second and third costae; second elytral interval golden-green; ventral aspect cupreous golden-green; eyes reddish brown; impression between eyes tinged with red; labrum, half of mandibles, maxillary palpi, labinal palpi, and gular black; dorsal aspect of antennae bronze black from second to 11th antennomere, ventral aspect of antennae wholly bronze black; tarsi dark green. Surface microreticulated.   
Head (Fig. 9C) globular; vertex with distinct median suture with simple punctures, otherwise surface smooth; from vertex to front suture forming distinct, broad concavity with coarse, large punctures, surface rugous, median longitudinal groove deep and narrow; semilunar fovea above antennal socket distinct, inner margin clearly carinate; AWE 1.26 times wider than VW (AWE: VW = 24:19), antennal socket well projected triangularly to above; frontal depression moderately deep; frontal carina distinct; clypeus bell-shaped, triangularly emarginate; labrum deeply, triangularly emarginate medially, with dense, long pubescences along inner margin; mandibles beakshaped in ventral view.  
Antennae serrate from fourth antennomere; first longest, club-shaped, weakly bent inwards, 3.69 times longer than second, 1.17 times longer than third; second shortest, subglobular; third cylindrical, posterior margin slightly bent inwards, 2.30 times longer than second, subequal with fourth (Ant3L: 4L = 20.5: 19.8); fifth to 11th gradually narrowed and shortened; 11th elliptic 1.25 times longer than tenth.  
Pronotum (Fig. 10C) trapezoidal, subparalleled laterally, widest at posterior margin (PNAW: MLP: PWP = 53: 54: 82), narrower than elytra, 1.51 times as wide as long; PWP 1.54 times wider than PNAW; anterior margin slightly, convexly emarginate; lateral margin subparallel, gradually converging to anterolateral angle; posterior margin broadly lobed at middle; posterolateral angles blunt, acuminate apically; disc almost flat medially, with sparse, simple punctures; dorsolateral portion slightly declivous, with dense, large, coarse punctures; lateral carina distinct to anterior one third, then curved downward before disappearing.  
Prosternum (Fig. 12C) convex; anterior margin carinate, 1.42 times wider than median width (AMWP: MWPS = 50:35), narrower than hypomeron apex; pronotosternal sutures simple, distinctly sinuate medially; prosternal process trilobed, surface prominently swollen, posterior apex truncate (LEWPP: MLPP: PMWPP = 44: 15: 21).  
Elytra (Fig. 11C) suboval, convex, widest medially, 2.44 times as long as wide, lateral margin subparallel at middle, then broadly convergent to posterior apex; punctures simple, sparse anteriomedially, becoming distinct, dense towards lateral and posterior portions; apical margins with four denticles, with sultural spine prominently, sharply projected.  
Legs long, exposed from femoral apex in dorsal view; pro- and mesofemora club-shaped; metafemur cylindrical, gradually slender to apex; meso- and metafemora with rather long brush setae from posterior base to half; protibia rather strongly recurved inwards, with small triangular expansion at posterior apex, with golden yellow short brush-like setae covering at anterior apex; mesotibia slightly recurved inwards; metatibia straight; tarsal claws simple.  
Seventh abdominal ventrite apically triangularly emarginate; ninth ventrite (Fig. 14C) tongue-shaped, somewhat broad, bright brown, parallel-sided medially, then gradually narrowed to apex, posterior margin narrow, truncate; ninth tergite (Fig. 13C) deeply emarginated in a ‘U’ shape; tenth tergite (Fig. 13C) semi-oval, 1.46 times wide as long.  
Aedeagus (Figs 15, 16C) cylindrical generally; median lobe cylindrical, suddenly narrowed, then sharply pointed apically, with lateral grooves to maintain inner margins of parameres exceeding apex of parameres, with strongly developed posterolateral projections exceeding inner margins of parameres in ventral view; parameres sharply pointed apically, apicolateral portion pale brown, with long setae.  
Females (Fig. 8F). Length 30.7–42.7 mm, width 9.6–13.7 mm, generally larger and with eyes less prominent than male; with red circle on median longitudinal groove of head; seventh ventrite rounded apically.  
 Distribution: East China (GuangXi, Hainan) and north Vietnam (Cao bang).   
 Biology: Ecological information on this new species has not been documented.   
 Etymology: This new species was named Chrysochroa pseudofulgidissima based on its morphological similarity with Ch. fulgidissima.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 71-98 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00763.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5406388