Description
Chrysobothris gratiosa is a small Jewel Beetle also known as a Metallic Wood Boring Beetle in the family Buprestidae, from E. Java, Indonesia. Chrysobothris is a large genus which contains many species of wood boring beetles in both live and dead trees.
Not a lot of information is provided about this species. When I checked with ChatGPT, this is what was returned:
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“Taxonomic record / original description — Chrysobothris gratiosa Gory, 1841 is a valid species name listed in major taxonomic catalogs. The original description appears in Gory’s Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères (Supplement aux Buprestides, 1841). I located digitized copies of that work (BHL / Archive.org / Wikimedia PDF). GBIF+1
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Modern databases / catalogues — the species is present in global checklists and taxon lists (GBIF backbone, Catalogue-of-Life-style lists, Wikipedia species lists), confirming the name and citation to Gory (1841). However, these databases show the species as a taxon entry rather than providing rich modern biology or occurrence data online. GBIF+1
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Specimen / occurrence records online — I could not find readily accessible, georeferenced specimen records or many modern museum records for C. gratiosa in the usual online collection portals (NHM data portal, Smithsonian NMNH collections, Museum Victoria, GBIF occurrence pages show the taxon but not a public set of specimen occurrences for this species). That suggests either the species is rare in digitized collections or its specimens exist primarily in undigitized museum holdings or under synonymised/ambiguous labels. GBIF+2data.nhm.ac.uk+2
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Biology / hosts / images — I did not find reliable modern natural-history notes (host trees, larval biology, size) or widely-available photos for C. gratiosa in online citizen-science platforms (e.g., iNaturalist / BugGuide) or short literature searches. That’s common for older, little-studied Chrysobothris species. (The genus overall: metallic, wood-boring larvae, adults with iridescent/metallic elytra.)”
- Beetle, Cyphogastra angulicollis, Jewel Beetle Specimen
