Luciola, Ho, 2019

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 : 87-88

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

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