Pygoluciola

Nada, B. & Ballantyne, L. A., 2018, A new species of Pygoluciola Wittmer with unusual abdominal configuration, from lowland dipterocarp forest in Peninsular Malaysia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), Zootaxa 4455 (2), pp. 343-362 : 348

Key to species of Pygoluciola using females

Extended from Ballantyne & Lambkin (2006)

1 All tibiae curved..................................................................... guigliae (Ballantyne)

- No tibiae curved...................................................................................... 2

2. Posterior margin of V7 deeply emarginate; bearing a small ridge anterior to median area of deepest emargination (possibility this ridge is an artefact having been seen only on dried pinned specimens); V8 with anteromedian prolongation not any more sclerotised than remainder of V8; T7 with anteromedian area rounded and elevated, lateral areas not flattened ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2001 figs 16, 17)............................................................ kinabalua (Ballantyne)

- Posterior margin of V7 without an anteromedian ridge; V8 with anteromedian prolongation well sclerotised and visibly separated from remainder of V7; T7 without a rounded and elevated anteromedian area, with lateral areas flattened........... 3

3 Posterolateral areas of V7 irregularly expanded with aggregation of fat body beneath ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2006 fig. 7)........................................................................................... satoi Ballantyne

- Posterolateral areas of V7 not expanded.................................................................... 4

4. Ventral surface yellow except for white LOs in V6, and narrow black line across posterior margin of V5 ( Figs 25, 26, 27 , 29‾33); bursa plates in form of two very elongate slender projections one directed anteriorly and one posteriorly ( Figs 34 ‾37)...................................................................................... dunguna sp. nov.

- Ventral surface brown except for white LOs in V6, without narrow black line across posterior margin of V5; bursa plates in form of two anteriorly directed hooks.................................................... .. wittmeri (Ballantyne)

Figures

FIGURES 25–28. Ventral aspect, mating pairs, male to left (25 JI40 (8), 26 B10 (gap 5-6)). 27, 28 dissected abdomen, anterior end to top of page (B19 (2-3)) 27 ventral; 28 dorsal. Scale line is 1 mm.

FIGURES 34–37. Female reproductive system (B19 (2-3)). 34 system without ovaries, ovipositor to left and digesting gland to right, from above; 35 as for 34 from side expanded base of spermatheca arrowed; 36 detail bursa and expanded base of spermatheca (arrowed); 37 bursa in area of bursa hooks from above. Figure legend: B = bursa; SDG = spermatophore digesting gland; V = valvifers of the ovipositor. Scale lines are 1 mm.