Aquatica ficta (Olivier)

Fu, Xinhua, Ballantyne, Lesley & Lambkin, Christine, 2012, The external larval morphology of aquatic and terrestrial Luciolinae fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 3405, pp. 1-34 : 9

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Aquatica ficta (Olivier) View in CoL

Figs 1–12, 67, 73, 74

Luciola ficta Olivier, 1909c:249 View in CoL . Pic, 1911:188. McDermott, 1966:104. Ho & Jiang, 1997:42. Yeh, 1999:1. Jeng et al. 2003:545. Ho, 2002:48. Chen, 2003:163. Ho et al, 2009:100.

Luciola ovalis Hope. Matsumura 1918:84 View in CoL misidentification. Chang 1994:1 misidentification. Aquatica ficta (Olivier) View in CoL . Fu et al. 2010:6.

Material examined. CHINA: 20 sixth instars bred from an original population of five males and three females collected from Fuqing County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, May 15, 2008 (NHMHAU).

Diagnosis. Protergum having rounded sides; with four pale spots at anterolateral and posterolateral corners; remaining terga lacking pale markings; thoracic and abdominal terga not widely separated, median line narrow; abdominal terga 1–8 with plates obliquely emarginate in anterolateral corners (Figs 73–74); abdominal glands with 3–7 spines ( Figs 7–12 View FIGURES 7 – 12 ); antennal segment 3 with closely adpressed finger like projections subequal in length to adjacent sense cone (Figs 1–4); mandibles lacking retinaculum ( Fig. 67 View FIGURES 67 – 72 ); palpi with terminal sense organs (Figs 5, 6).

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