Chrysobothris femorata

Broadly elongate, rather strongly flattened above, shining dark bronze with a reddish tinge most apparent on the apex of the antennae, elytra, and abdomen, ventrally more shining than above. Head: frons nearly flat, greenish with rather long dense white setae, indistinctly reticulate, pores larger near antennae, indistinct purple-copper chevron above middle of frons; clypeus acutely notched at middle, semicircularly rounded on each side, border black with adjacent bronze area extending to antennae; occiput with longitudinal grooved black carina. Pronotum 1.8 times wider than long, widest about 1/6 before anterior margin, sides gradually converging to base; disc with medium longitudinal depression not reaching either margin, with somewhat parallel short transverse ridges and irregular indistinct smooth areas; anterior lateral margin greenish-blue. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum, sides diverging from humeral angle to behind middle, then arcuately converging to narrowly rounded apex; lateral margins coarsely serrate, larger toward apex; deep basal depression closer to suture than margin; humeral depressions broad and shallow; surface glabrous, coarsely, densely, irregularly punctate with indistinct smooth areas. Profemur with large obtuse tooth, dentate on outer edge; pro- and mesotibia strongly arcuate with row of small teeth; metatibia straight bronze without teeth; tarsi dark greenish. Last abdominal sternite semicircularly emarginate at apex, with serrate submarginal ridge; last tergite thickened with deep median notch.

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