Minoshima Yûsuke N, Watanabe Kohei
Natural History Division; Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History; 2-4-1 Higashida; Yahatahigashi-ku; Kitakyushu- shi; Fukuoka-ken; 805-0071 Japan.
Ishikawa Insect Museum; Inu-3; Yawata-machi; Hakusan-shi; Ishikawa-ken; 920-2113 Japan.
Zootaxa. 2024 Nov 26;5541(2):200-214. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.5.
The generic and species identity of previously described larva of Paracymus aeneus (Germar, 1824), the type species of the genus Paracymus Thomson, 1867, has been a subject of controversy owing to their morphological similarity to the genus Anacaena Thomson, 1859. In this study, we describe morphology of the egg-case and all three instar larvae of P. aeneus based on Japanese specimens obtained through rearing and provide the biological information on the species under rearing conditions. The morphology of the larvae corresponds with that of known Paracymus larvae rather than Anacaena. Consequently, larvae previously described as P. aeneus do not belong this species. Therefore, this is the first description of the immature stages of P. aeneus.
此前描述的铜绿副 cymus（Germar，1824 年）幼虫的属和种的身份一直存在争议，该物种是 1867 年 Thomson 所定的 Paracymus 属的模式种，因其形态与 1859 年 Thomson 所定的 Anacaena 属相似。在本研究中，我们基于通过饲养获得的日本标本，描述了铜绿副 cymus 的卵鞘和所有三个龄期幼虫的形态，并提供了该物种在饲养条件下的生物学信息。幼虫的形态与已知的 Paracymus 幼虫相符，而非 Anacaena。因此，先前描述为铜绿副 cymus 的幼虫并不属于该物种。所以，这是对铜绿副 cymus 未成熟阶段的首次描述。
