Corymbitodes wangi, Qiu, 2023

Corymbitodes wangi sp. nov.

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Holotype, ♀ ( MYNU), Huaping Village, Huaping Natural Reserve, Guilin City , Guangxi, 700-800 m, 5-7.V.2017, Xian-Yi Wang leg.

Diagnosis. – This new species resembles the female of Corymbitodes qingxiae sp. nov., but it can be easily separated from the latter by the larger body and the absence of carination on posterior angle of pronotum.

Description (based on female holotype)

Dimension. – Body length 10.5 mm.

Shape and coloration. – Shiny; head, base of mandible, labrum, scape, pronotum, elytra, scutellar shield, as well as ventral side bright metallic yellowish green; pronotum and ventral side, especially abdomen additionally with metallic reddish sheen; the rest antennomeres dark brown, with dark bluish reflection; maxillary palpus dark brown; legs yellow, tarsi dark brown. Body covered with whitish short pubescence.

Head. – Frons slightly depressed apically; punctures umbilicate, almost contiguous in the middle, sparser apically.Antennaenot reaching posterior angles of pronotum bymore thanlengthof lastantennomere,serrated from antennomere 3 on; scape elongate oval, pedicel small, globous, antennomere 3 elongate, about 4.3 times longer than wide, antennomere 4-10 subtriangular, gradually slenderer, the last antennomere elongate,apex slightly enlarged and rounded.

Pronotum. – Elongate, subtrapezoidal, depressed along midline, about 1.2 longer than width, widest at posterior angles; sides almost straight, gradually widened, posterior angles divergent, apices truncated; punctures umbilicate, intervals of punctures in middle about diameter of one puncture; punctures larger and denser laterally, sometimes almost contiguous.

Scutellar shield. – Covered with dense pubescence, tongue-shaped, densely with small punctures.

Elytra. – Elongate, about 2.5 times longer than width, widest at basal third; apical portion gradually narrowed, apices acute, not connected; surface of elytra smooth, wrinkled in the middle near scutellar shield, striae formed by dense quadrate punctures, each puncture connected by grooved line, space between punctures in the line not uniform; interstriae sparsely punctuated.

Male and larva. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The specific epithet is dedicated to Mr. Xian-Yi Wang (Guizhou, China), the collector of the holotype.

Distribution. – China (Guangxi).