Medeopteryx platygaster (Lea), 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5266857
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scientific name	Medeopteryx platygaster (Lea)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Medeopteryx platygaster (Lea) View in CoL comb. nov.

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

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

Nec Pteroptyx cribellata Olivier. Olivier, 1913b:417 View in CoL (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 View in CoL , 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 View FIGURES 18–25 ). 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 .

References

Ballantyne, L. A. & McLean, M. R. (1970) Revisional studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 96, 223 - 305.

Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 a) Further Revisional Studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 117 - 170.

Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. (2000) Lampyridae of Australia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 46 (1), 15 - 93.

Calder, A. A. (1998) Coleoptera: Elateroidea In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 29.6 (CSIRO Publishing Melbourne).

Lea, A. M. (1909) Revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1909, 45 - 251. [Lampyridae, 106 - 111].

McDermott, F. A. (1966) Lampyridae Pars. 9. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling) (Ed. Sec), 1 - 149 (Luciolini, 98 - 118).

Olivier, E. (1910 b) Pars 9. Lampyridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling), (Luciolinae, 40 - 48).

Olivier, E. (1913 b) Lampyridae. Resultats de L'Expedition Scientifique Neerlandaise a la Nouvelle-Guinee en 1907 et 1909 sous les auspices de Dr H. R. Lorentz. Zoologie Livraison III. Nova Guinea, 9, 417 - 422.

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.