Australoluciola nigra (Olivier) Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2013

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2013, Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera, Zootaxa 3653 (1), pp. 1-162 : 58

Australoluciola nigra (Olivier) comb. nov.

Luciola Gestroi var. nigra Olivier, 1885:366 .

Luciola (Luciola) nigra Olivier stat. nov. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998: 179. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:63; 2009:21.

Luciola humilis Olivier, 1896:2 ; 1902:80; 1907:52. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:7. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179.

Luciola (Luciola) humilis Olivier. McDermott, 1966:105 . Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy).

Luciola scutellaris Lea, 1929:344 . Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy).

Luciola (Luciola) scutellaris Lea. McDermott, 1966:113 .

Holotype. Male. Luciola humilis QUEENSLAND: Cairns ( NHML).

Other specimens examined. NEW GUINEA: 8.51S, 143.11E, Western district Oriomo 3m, 6.viii.1964 H Clissold male ( BPBM). 146.40E, 7.22S, Wau Morobe Dist Big Wau Creek 1300m xi.1965 JLG malaise trap male ( BPBM) .

Diagnosis. Males small to medium (4.8–7.6 mm long); pronotum orange, MS orange or black; elytra very dark brown, almost black; ventral surface of metathorax, and of V2–5 black; white LO occupying all of V6 (lateral margins sometimes dark brown); LO restricted to median basal area of V7, which is otherwise black; pronotal punctures small, shallow, mostly contiguous; MPP of V7 conspicuously produced, and may be slightly emarginate at apex; ventral surface of T8 with lateral ridges without flanges. Female macropterous, coloured as for male except for pale cream LO in V6. Larva dorsally pale with a broad pale median band ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000 Fig. 22c ), distinguished from the very similar larvae of Aus. australis and Aus. orapallida in without marginal tubercles along the anterior margin of the protergum.

Figures

FIGURES 18–25. Australoluciola aspera, type female (18), Wewak male NHML 19–25. 18, 19 dorsal; 20, 21 ventral (21 abdomen only); 22–24 aedeagus dorsal (22), right lateral (23) and ventral (lateral projections of LL arrowed in 24); 25 pronotum dorsal. These figures share scale lines: 19, 20; 22–24.