Medeopteryx similisantennata (Ballantyne) 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 : 92

Medeopteryx similisantennata (Ballantyne) comb. nov.

Pteroptyx similisantennata Ballantyne, 1987a:158 .

Holotype. Male. NEW GUINEA: 145– 146.00E, 4– 6.00S, Madang District , Alexishafen, at bridge ( ANIC).

Diagnosis. Moderate sized (7.5–8.9 mm long); pronotum, MS and MN orange; elytra dark brown; LO entire in V7; dimple and hump absent; very similar to Medeopteryx antennata (Olivier) , distinguished by the outline of the terminal abdomen and elytral apex and the uniformly dark antennae ( Ballantyne 1987a Figs 3, 4 ).

Remarks. The specimens included by Ballantyne (1987b:159) in the type series of this species were initially included by Lloyd (1973a) in Pteroptyx (now Medeopteryx ) antennata on the basis of their flashing data, and similarities with that species are discussed elsewhere.

Figures

FIGURES 3–5. Majority rule tree for the complete analysis of the Luciolinae. Analysis consisted of consensus of 169 MPTs with a length of 5609 from a data set of 143 taxa and 436 morphological characters in (see Table 3). Figure 3, part 1: nodes 1– 34; 4, part 2 Nodes 35–52; 5, part 3 nodes 55–76. Nodes (red). New genera, new species, and still undescribed species in red and bold, with identification numbers blue. Black values above branches show the % of MPTs over 50 %.