Australoluciola nigra (Olivier), 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.