Medeopteryx platygaster (Lea) 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 : 91

Medeopteryx platygaster (Lea) comb. nov.

Luciola platygaster Lea, 1909:110 . Olivier, 1910b:45.

Pteroptyx platygaster (Lea) . Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000: 69.

Nec Pteroptyx cribellata Olivier. Olivier, 1913b:417 (synonymy). McDermott, 1966:117. Ballantyne & McLean, 1970:242. Ballantyne, 1987a:133. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:180.

Lectotype. Male. AUSTRALIA. Cairns , lectotype male of Luciola platygaster Lea , designated by Ballantyne & McLean (1970) ( SAMA).

Diagnosis. An Australian Medeopteryx with orange pronotum, dark brown elytra, dimple and hump on V7, and narrowly deflexed elytral apex ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000 Fig. 20 ). Female macropterous, larva unknown.

Remarks. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000) revealed two species of Pteroptyx (now Medeopteryx ) in Australia, distinguished by the form of the deflexed elytral apex. The females recorded from Iron Range in Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000:69) are probably females of M. cribellata .

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.