Aetheomorpha coerulea (Jacoby, 1892) (Figures 8A–I, 12H) Jacoby, 1892: 882 (orig.: Aspidolopha coerulea; type locality: Burma, Carin Chebà; type deposited: MSNG); 1908: 134; Clavareau, 1913: 44 (catalogue); Kimoto and Gressitt, 1981: 297 (transfer to Aetheomorpha; Thailand, Vietnam); Regalin and Medvedev, 2010: 564 (catalogue); Medvedev, 2010: 198 (Yunnan: Xishuangbanna). Material examined CHINA: Hainan: one male, one female, Jianfengling, 12 August 1981, leg. Maobin Gu; Yunnan: two males, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 12 July 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang; two females, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 13 July 1957, leg. Shuyong Wang; one male, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 19 May 1958, leg. Yiran Zhang; one male, six females, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 6 June 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng; one female, Xishuangbanna, Menghai, 21 July 1958, leg. Fuji Pu; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengzhe, 25 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang; one male, Xishuangbanna, Meng’a, 9 August 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 20 May 1958, leg. Facai Zhang; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengsong, 24 July 1958, leg. Leyi Zheng; one female, Ruili, Wanting, 10 June 1992, leg. Decheng Yuan (IZ-CAS). Distribution China (Hainan, Yunnan); Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. Remarks This species is well defined by its characteristic colouration: elytra are completely bluish black and pronotum is fulvous with a central black band. Also, the aedeagal apex slightly bent ventrally; the spermathecal duct is long, irregularly coiled dozens of times and the dorsal central sclerite is sub-oblong.

Published as part of Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2012, Taxonomy of the genus Aetheomorpha Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini) from China, with description of five new species, pp. 1407-1440 in Journal of Natural History 46 (23 - 24) on page 1426, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.673642, http://zenodo.org/record/5200117