Luciola, Ho, 2019
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CE73264D-C234-4B82-A634-CAD6254C5957 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4688869 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C3DA91C-516D-1801-FF0E-F9F5EAA41845 |
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
scientific name |
Luciola |
status |
s. str. |
Key to species of Luciola View in CoL s. str. as defined here, using males and associated females
1. Male............................................................................................... 2 Female ............................................................................................ 14
2. Light organs absent; very dark brown to black species with pronounced posterolateral eye emargination; known only from New Caledonia ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 120 121, 124, 125)............................... oculofissa Ballantyne Light View in CoL organs present in at least one abdominal ventrite; eye emargination present or not............................. 3
3. Eyes with strong posterolateral emargination clearly visible in resting head ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 fig. 110)....... 4 Eyes without a visible posterolateral emargination, or with a weak emargination usually covered by the pronotum........ 5
4. No light organs in V7; light organs in V6 reduced to anterolateral plaques; known only from Fiji......... hypocrita Olivier Light View in CoL organs in both V6 and 7 entire, may be retracted from lateral margins ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 114, 119)....................................................................................... antipodum Bourgeois View in CoL
5. Dorsal surface completely black or very dark brown.......................................................... 6 Dorsal surface never completely dark brown; pronotum usually pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking..... 7
6. Known only from New Caledonia; aedeagal LL widely separated along their inner dorsal margins with a rounded projection along inner dorsal margins approximately half their length from their apices ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 111, 112)...................................................................................... aquilaclara Ballantyne A S. E. View in CoL Asian species sometimes from high altitudes; aedeagal LL not widely separated along their inner dorsal margins and without rounded projection as described above ( Fig. 307 View FIGURES 305−308 )........................................... pallidipes Pic View in CoL
7. Dorsal surface pale yellowish brown with dark elytral apices....................................................8 Dorsal surface not as above; pronotum may be black; elytra usually dark brown to black............................. 9
8. Ventral abdomen with median brown markings on V4–5 with lateral margins converging anteriorly ( Figs 271, 275 View FIGURES 270−279 )........................................................................................... jengai Nada View in CoL sp. nov. Ventral abdomen not coloured as above; ventrites anterior to the LO yellowish except for dark posterior margin of V5 (Fig. 285)................................................................................. niah Jusoh View in CoL sp. nov.
9. Pronotum MN and MS black; elytra light brown with extensive darker brown markings at base and apex ( Figs 309, 310 View FIGURES 309−314 )................................................................................ tiomana Ballantyne View in CoL sp. nov. Dorsal surface with elytra black and pronotum pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking.................. 10
10. Pronotum uniformly pale coloured with no darker markings.................................................. 11 Pronotum always with median darker markings.............................................................12
11. Large thick bodied, 10.5− 15 mm long ( Chen 2003: 168)...................................... .. kagiana Matsumura Smaller View in CoL , 6.5− 10 mm long ( Chen 2003: 169 as Luciola View in CoL sp. 3)........................................ satoi Jeng et al. View in CoL
12. Pronotum orange with darker median markings; pronounced tubercles along posterior margin ( Yiu 2017 fig. 22f)................................................................................................ .. tuberculata Yiu If View in CoL pronotum with darker median markings then no tubercles across posterior margin............................... 13
13. Elytra dark brown to black with dark apices; 6 mm long species from Sri Lanka with dark brown elytra and orange pronotum having a wide median dark band ( Figs 258, 266, 267 View FIGURES 258−269 )............................................ horni Bourgeois Elytra View in CoL pale brown with white apices; 10 mm long; known from Vietnam; pronotum pale yellowish, may have pale brown median marking ( Figs 246−247 View FIGURES 246−257 )........................................................... chapaensis View in CoL comb. nov.
14. Female fully winged and flight capable (Chen: 172)............................................ curtithorax Olivier View in CoL Female flightless..................................................................................... 15
15. Female with elytra usually covering abdomen and hind wings absent............................ parvula Kiesenwetter View in CoL Female with short elytra up to twice as long as median pronotal length (Chen: 170, 171)................ filiformis Olivier View in CoL
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