Cicindela coerulea Pallas 1773
Creators: name: Matalin, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cicindelidae
Cicindela
Cicindela coerulea

description: Cicindela (s. str.) coerulea przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887
Figs 62, 137, 139, 196, 197, 203–206, 215–220, 233, 237
Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887: 439 (Type locality—rives du fleuve Yang tzékiang [= ЯН-ЦЗЫ-ЦЗЯН] et de la rivière
Kon-tschun-tschu [= КОН-чюН-чу], Tschun-Tschu-Oumà [= Чум-ча-ума] et Bydjun [= БЫ-джуН], 12 000–14 000 pds.
d’altitude). = przevalskii [auct.] = przewalskyi [auct.] Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887: Horn & Roeschke 1891: 50; Fleutiaux 1892: 106; Tschitschérine, 1903: 96. Cicindela hybrida przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887: Jakobson 1905: 190; Horn 1905a: 157, 158; 1905b: 26; 1915: 336; 1926:
221; 1930: 402; 1938: 45, Taf. 63 figs 6, 7; Winkler 1924: 4; Mandl 1935: 292 figs 72, 73, 296 fig. 62, 299, 300 fig. 16; Wu
1937: 14; Cassola & van Nidek 1984: 10; Werner, 1991: 16, T. 12 fig. 79; Wiesner 1992: 118. Cicindela sahlbergi przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887: Schilder 1953: 564. Cicindela coerulea przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887: Gebert 1995: 7, 25 Abb. 9; Lorenz 1998: 43; 2005: 131; Puchkov & Matalin
2003: 104; Shook & Wiesner 2006: 10; Wu & Shook 2010: 78; Wu 2011: 24; Putchkov & Matalin 2017: 227; Wiesner
2020: 184.
Type material. Lectotype of Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff (designated here), ♂ (Figs62, 137, 196,197, 203, 215, 233, 237)—Amdo, 10–18. VI.1884, Przevalsky [typed white label], silver circle, C. Przewalskii Dokht. [handwritten white label], Type Dokhtourow [typed white label], LECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, des. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label] (ZIN). Paralectotypes of Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff (designated here): 1♀ (Fig. 139, 217)—Amdo, 10–18. VI.1884, Przevalsky [typed white label], silver circle, Przewalskii Dokht., Tschitscherin det. [handwritten and typed white label], PARALECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, design. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label]; 3♀♀ (Figs 205, 206, 218–220)—Amdo, 18–24. VI.1884, Przevalsky [typed white label], silver circle, Przewalskii Dokht., Tschitscherin det. [handwritten and typed white label], PARALECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, des. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label]; 1♀ —Amdo, 24–25. VI.1884, Przevalsky [typed white label], silver circle, Przewalskii Dokht., Tschitscherin det. [handwritten and typed white label], PARALECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, design. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label]; 1♂ (Fig. 204, 216)— Przewals. [handwritten white label], golden circle, Przewalskii Dokht., ♂, 14.96, A. Semenow det. [handwritten and typed white label], PARALECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, des. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label] (all ZIN); 2♂ m 1♀ —Amdo, 1884, Przevalsky [typed white label], PARALECTOTYPUS, Cicindela przewalskii Dokhtouroff, 1887, des. A. V. Matalin, 2024 [printed red label] (SDEI).
Diagnosis. This subspecies is easily distinguished from others by purple-bronze or purple-cupreous elytra with complete and relatively wide white pattern with virtually transverse, slightly sinuate middle band ending in hook-shaped apical portion and narrowly connecting with wide apical lunula (Figs 196, 215–220), as well as by the proportion of labrum (Figs 137, 139, 245). From nominotypical subspecies and C. coerulea nitida C. coerulea przewalskii is clearly distinguished by short, slightly rounded towards to ventral side internal sack so В with no contact with the aedeagus tube (Figs 233, 237 vs. Figs 65–70 and Figs 117–132). Moreover C. coerulea przewalskii significantly differs from C. coerulea grumi by the proportions of pronotum and labrum (Figs 137, 139 vs. Figs 138, 140–144; Figs 203–206 vs. Figs 207–214; Figs 244, 245).
Redescription. TL = 12.3 mm (n = 2) in males, 12.2–13.6 mm (mean = 12.72 mm, n = 5) in females (Fig. 196).
Head bicolour, genae, clypeus, antennal plates, frontal margins and two lateral striae on vertex bright green with golden-cupreous lustre; central portion of frons and vertex, supraorbital plates and occiput bright purple-cupreous. Labrum with 6–10 (mean = 8, n = 7) submarginal setae (Figs 137, 139), LW/LL = 2.30–2.44 (mean = 2.36, n = 7). Mandibles relatively stout, ML/MW = 7.75 (n = 2) in males and 7.5–7.75 (mean 7.58, n = 5) in females. Scape with 3–4 apical setae, glabrous, or with only a single additional seta.
Pronotum purple or purple-cupreous with golden reflection, anterior and posterior grooves as well as midline bright green and blue (Figs 203–206); PW/PL = 1.36–1.40 (mean = 1.37, n = 7). Prothorax bright green with golden tinge, mesothorax blue-violet, metathorax bluish-green with bright golden-cupreous reflection laterally; pro- and mesepimerum as well as metepisternum bright purple-cupreous with golden-green lustre; mesepisternum in males cupreous-purple with light golden lustre, in females bluish-green forward of coupling sulcus and purple-cupreous behind it.
Elytra purple-bronze or purple-cupreous with sparse bright green punctures in the base near suture, in some specimens with thin green lateral margin; EL/EW = 1.47–1.55 (mean = 1.51, n = 7); white elytral pattern complete, relatively wide; humeral lunula always separate, middle band virtually transverse, slightly sinuate, with hook-shaped apical portion, narrowly connecting with wide apical lunula by a short marginal band (Figs 196, 215–220).
Abdominal sternites bluish-green or blue-violet, lateral margin sternites 1 and 2 with golden-green or greenblue tinge.
Aedeagus relatively short (Fig. 62), EL/AL= 1.91–1.93 (mean 1.92, n = 2). Internal sac with short slightly rounded towards to ventral side internal sack so В does not contact the aedeagus tube (Figs 233, 237).
Distribution. CHINA: Qinghai Province (Fig. 246).
Notes. The coordinates of the environs of one of the typical localities of C. coerulea przewalskii, namely Kon-tschun-tschu [= КОН-чюН-чу] River, are indicated in the book of Przewalskyi (1888: 176) and correspond to 33 o 47.1’N 95 o 54.5’E.
description: Published as part of Matalin, Andrey V., 2025, An intraspecific structure of Сicindela (s. str.) coerulea Pallas, 1773 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae), pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 5583 (2) on pages 231-233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14798772