Pygoluciola kinabalua (Ballantyne)

Lambkin, L. A. Ballantyne C., 2006, A Phylogenetic Reassessment Of The Rare S. E. Asian Firefly Genus Pygoluciola Wittmer (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (1), pp. 21-48 : 29

Pygoluciola kinabalua (Ballantyne)

( Figs. 3, 7 , 38-40 )

Luciola (Pygoluciola) kinabalua Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2001: 371 [Holotype male Malaysia, Sabah: Mt Kinabalu (BMNH)].

Diagnosis. – Males elongate slender ( Figs. 3, 7 ), about three times as long as wide, with elytra subparallel sided; one of two species of Pygoluciola with the apex of the MPP of V7 emarginate, gently so in this species; distinguished from P. wittmeri , which has a deeply emarginate apex; female with posterior margin of V7 deeply and broadly emarginate, with a small transverse ridge just anterior to this emargination, lateral projections moderately broad and apically rounded; tergite 7 with strongly sclerotised median ‘mound’; lateral margins of anterior prolongation of V8 not well sclerotised nor well defined.

Figures

Figure 38. (A). The strict consensus of the 2992 MPT for 49 taxa of the Luciolinae found with phylogenetic analysis of 115 characters, excluding 10 colour and mimicry characters. (B). The majority rule consensus of the 2992 MPT for the Luciolinae, showing above the branch the percentage of MPT retaining that node. 153 of the MPT were compatible with the majority rule consensus.

Figure 39. Semistrict consensus of 195 successively weighted trees. Percentage of successively weighted trees with this resolution shown above the branch. None of the MPT was compatible with the semistrict consensus successively weighted trees.

Figure 40. Preferred MPT from 153 filtered MPT compatible with the majority rule consensus of the 2992 MPT, Part 1, without Atyphella clade. Unambiguous character and state changes were mapped using MacClade. Colour and mimicry characters, not used in the phylogenetic analysis, are enclosed in boxes. Bremer support values shown above nodes.

Figs. 1-17. Features of male Pygoluciola. 1, 6, 13-17: P. guigliae; 2: ‘Mt Missim’ male; 3, 7: P. kinabalua holotype male; 4, 10-12: P. stylifer holotype male; 5, 8-9: P. wittmeri. 1-5: dorsal, male pronota (left side shows colour pattern, right side sculpturing; solid line indicates extent of irregular tubercles, dotted lines retraction of fat body): 6,7: dorsal, whole body; aedeagi (8; 10 ventral; 9, 12 dorsal; 11, left lateral); 13: maxillary palp, ventral surface; 14: labial palp, ventral surface; 15-17: aedeagal sheath, dorsal, ventral, and lateral. These figures share scale lines: 1-5; 6-7; 8-14; 15-17. Figure legend: A, anus; BP, basal piece; EO, ejaculatory orifice; LL, lateral lobe; ML, median lobe; TS, tergite aedeagal sheath; VS, ventrite aedeagal sheath.