Luciola species

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lloyd, James E., 2013, Working and reference check list for fireflies of Melanesia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 277-284 : 280

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3736.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C3E21F1A-B054-42C5-B338-270DA8422DAC

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Luciola species
status

 

Luciola species 11.

Current species identification: Medeopteryx similispupillae Ballantyne 2013 .

References: Lloyd 1973b, p. 995; Ballantyne and Lambkin 2013, p. 92.

References to Luciola pupilla in the following are to this species: Ballantyne 1987a, pp. 164, 165, 167, 168, and Fig. 14k; Ballantyne 1987b, pp. 177, 185; Hanson 1978, p. 2158; Buck et al. 1981a p. 287.

Specimens in JELC: G174 , 184 , 193 , 198 , 204 , 211 , 215 , 218 , 219 , 222 , 224 , 448 (paratypes) .

Specimen in ANIC: G206 About ANIC (holotype) .

Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 a) Further revisional studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera; Lampyridae: Luciolinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 117 - 170.

Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 b) Lucioline morphology, taxonomy and behavior: a reappraisal. (Coleoptera, Lampyridae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 171 - 188.

Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. L. (2013) Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera. Zootaxa, 3653 (1), 1 - 162. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3653.1.1

Buck, J. B., Buck, E., Hanson, F., Case, J. F., Mets, L. & Atla, G. J. (1981 a) Control of flashing in fireflies IV. Free run pacemaking in a synchronic Pteroptyx. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 144, 277 - 286. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 00612559

Hanson, F. (1978) Comparative studies of firefly pacemakers. Federation Proceedings, 37, 2158 - 2163.

Lloyd, J. E. (1973 b) Fireflies of Melanesia. Bioluminescence, mating behavior, and synchronous flashing. Environmental Entomology, 2, 991 - 1008.

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Luciola