Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886

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 : 150-153

Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886

Figs 474−483

Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886: 186 ; 1902: 76; Olivier 1913b: 59. McDermott 1966: 116. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 64. Type. Not located in MNHN by Ballantyne 2013.

Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES. Male determined Colophotia miranda Olivier by K G Blair ( Figs 463−465 ) ( NHML) . MALAYSIA Sarawak Nov. 1895 female det. Olivier (Olivier Box 60 MNHN) (Also addressed below as a possible female of Luciola lata ) ( Figs 474, 475 ) . BRUNEI (as N. Borneo Brunei) female det. E. Olivier (Pic box 47 MNHN) (Also addressed below as a possible female of Luciola lata ) .

Remarks. Olivier (1886) described a 15 mm long male from the Philippines (Bohol) as totally yellow dorsally and with a single recurved appendage of the terminal abdomen. Subsequently (1913b) he indicated the occurrence of the species from Borneo, but this time the abdomen having “two long elevated appendicles curved upwards”. He did not however list any specimens. It is possible the first specimen may have been a species of Pygoluciola , or even a female, while the second specimen could have been a Colophotia sp. The single male identified by Blair in NHML conforms in both size and colour to Olivier (1886) but the abdomen to neither description (the specimen was not dissected). Luciola lata Olivier , which was described with a median carina on the last abdominal segment, is a large pale species from Borneo, and was synonymised with L. pallescens Gorham by McDermott (1966). The latter species is addressed here and assigned to Abscondita , and L. lata addressed below. None of the specimens we examined have any suggestion of a median carina on V7, and McDermott’s synonymy of lata with pallescens is rejected.

The issue is further confused as several Luciolinae have large females which approach Olivier’s (1886) description of C. miranda . Abscondita anceyi is a large pale specimen with black elytral apices. Abscondita pallescens comb. nov. female is entirely pale yellowish brown dorsally except for variously sized brownish marks on the pronotum. Luciola candezei and L. ochracea are both pale coloured dorsally but with distinctive black abdomens and are probably the same species. Luciola concreta Olivier from Java is a little smaller at 10 mms. See further discussion under Abscondita pallescens (Gorham) comb. nov.

The two females from MNHN identified as Colophotia miranda female are very likely conspecific with a single male we address below as a possible male of Luciola lata .

Figures

FIGURES 474−483. Colophotia miranda. 474−476 male in NHML id by Blair as C. miranda; 477, 478, 479 female Brunei (MNHN); 480−483 female Sarawak (MNHN). 474, 477, 481 habitus dorsal; 475, 476 abdomen: 475 ventral; 475 dorsal; 478, 482 habitus ventral; 479, 483 specimen labels; 480 pronotum dorsal.

FIGURES 463−473. Serratia sibuyania gen. et sp. nov. 463 holotype (USNM); 464 Romblon (USNM); 465−468, 470−473 Luzon H.S.B. (USNM); 469 Macassar (USNM). 463, 464, 465 habitus dorsal; 466, 468 habitus ventral (468 after removal of abdomen); 467 dorsal head. Pronotum and anterior part of elytra; 470 tergite 8 ventral; 471−473 abdomen: 471 intact, ventral; dissected, ventral; 473 dorsal.