Aquatica ficta (Olivier)

Fu, Xinhua, Ballantyne, Lesley & Lambkin, Christine, 2012, The external larval morphology of aquatic and terrestrial Luciolinae fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 3405, pp. 1-34: 9

Aquatica ficta (Olivier)   Edit

Figs 1–12, 67, 73, 74

Luciola ficta Olivier, 1909 c: 249   Edit . Pic, 1911: 188. McDermott, 1966: 104. Ho & Jiang, 1997: 42. Yeh, 1999: 1. Jeng et al. 2003: 545. Ho, 2002: 48. Chen, 2003: 163. Ho et al, 2009: 100.

Luciola ovalis Hope. Matsumura 1918: 84   Edit misidentification. Chang 1994: 1 misidentification. Aquatica ficta (Olivier)   Edit . Fu et al. 2010: 6.

Material examined. CHINA: 20 sixth instars bred from an original population of five males and three females collected from Fuqing County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, May 15, 2008 (NHMHAU).

Diagnosis. Protergum having rounded sides; with four pale spots at anterolateral and posterolateral corners; remaining terga lacking pale markings; thoracic and abdominal terga not widely separated, median line narrow; abdominal terga 1–8 with plates obliquely emarginate in anterolateral corners (Figs 73–74); abdominal glands with 3–7 spines ( Figs 7–12); antennal segment 3 with closely adpressed finger like projections subequal in length to adjacent sense cone (Figs 1–4); mandibles lacking retinaculum ( Fig. 67); palpi with terminal sense organs (Figs 5, 6).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 12. Aq. ficta larva, SEM. 7 tracheal gills and eversible organs, first and second abdominal segments from above; 8 non-functional spiracle at base of tracheal gill; 9 – 12 various protuberances on surface of eversible organs.

FIGURES 67 – 72. Left mandibles, dorsal. 67 Aq. ficta; 68 Aq. lateralis; 69 L. cruciata; 70 L. substriata; 71 P. q i n g y u; 72 A. circumdata.