Missimia Ballantyne 2009

Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, Zootaxa 4687 (1), pp. 1-174 : 116

Missimia Ballantyne 2009

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Missimia Ballantyne in Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 72 , figs 21, 22, 27, 29, 30, 32–34, 246–254)

Type species: Missimia flavida Ballantyne by monotypy.

Diagnosis. 12−13 mm long. A striking and rare genus, known from four specimens in one species from highland New Guinea. Males and females dorsally pale yellowish brown with black legs, elongate subparallel sided body and exposed head; males and females distinguished from all known Luciolinae by a heavily sclerotised labrum which is immovably joined to the rest of the head (there is no clypeolabral suture), and the slight acute prolongation of the posterolateral corners of the pronotum. The only known Luciolinae species apart from L. cruciata and L. owadai where the epipleuron at its base is narrow and does not cover the elytral humerus from below. Females macropterous, larvae unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 9−16. Key to genera characters 2. 9. Missimia flavida type male; 10 Luciola brahmina type male (MNHN); 11, 12 Luciola seriata type male (CMG); 13 Asymmetricata circumdata male; 14, 15 Kuantana menayah gen. et sp. nov.; 16 Curtos costipenis male. 9 anterior head (arrow indicates clypeus); 10, 11, 16 dorsal (arrows in 16 indicate humeral carina); 12 lateral tergite 8 aedeagal sheath and sclerites); 13 dorsal tergites 7 and 8; 14, 15, dorsal (14) and ventral tergite 8. Figure legends: AS aedeagal sheath; T7, 8 tergites 7, 8.