Magnalata limbata ( Blanchard 1853 )

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 : 106-107

Magnalata limbata ( Blanchard 1853)

Fig. 67

Luciola limbata Blanchard 1853: 73 Plate VI.

Luciola (Luciola) limbata Blanchard. McDermott 1966: 108 .

Nec Luciola marginipennis Guérin-Méneville. Olivier 1902: 82 . Lacordaire 1857: 337.

Luciola rubiginosa Olivier 1883: 329 ; 1902: 85; 1913a: 417 (Synonymy–Partim). McDermott 1966: 112.

Magnalata limbata (Blanchard) . Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 69 (figs 17, 18, 227, 228, 229, 230, 235, 236, 238, 239, 244) Types. Luciola limbata : SOLOMON ISLANDS. Location of holotype unknown.

Luciola rubiginosa : ‘Patria’ (? = New Hebrides, McDermott 1966). (MNHN).

Diagnosis. One of four similarly coloured species known from the Solomons, with dark brown elytra laterally margined with orange, distinguished as follows: Magnalata limbata : pronotum orange (retraction of fat body beneath cuticle in pinned specimens can leave slightly darker patches which are not a true darker colouration); elytra parallel-sided; MS black; 4 elytral interstitial lines as well developed as suture; pronotal punctures broad, deep, but not contiguous; V4 brown at sides, V5 brown; LO occupying all but a narrow posterior border in V7; MPP about as long as wide, apically rounded, lateral margins converging posteriorly; ML of aedeagus lacking lateral teeth. Pacifica limbatipennis and Pac. limbatifusca : pronotum orange (with median dark spots in limbatifusca ); MS red; elytral interstitial lines poorly defined; pronotal punctures broad, shallow, contiguous; V4 brown, V5 very dark brown; LO retracted to anterior portion of V7; MPP elongate, apically truncate (sometimes obliquely), lateral margins subparallel; ML of aedeagus with lateral teeth. Convexa wolfi : pronotum orange; elytra convex-sided; MS red; 4 elytral interstitial lines well–defined; pronotal punctures very small, shallow, separated by 1–2 times their width (surface of pronotum between punctures smooth and shiny); all ventrites yellow except for very narrow brown posterior margin of V5; MPP short apically rounded; ML of aedeagus lacking lateral teeth.

Remarks. One of the largest of the Luciolinae of the Solomons ranging from 9.2–14.3 mm long.

Figures

FIGURES 64–69. Key to genera characters 10. 64 Aquilonia costata; 65, 66 Aq. similismessoria comb. nov.; 67 Magnalata limbata; 68 Atyphella flammans; 69 Aty. aphrogeneia.