Pacifica plagiata (Blanchard) 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 : 99

Pacifica plagiata (Blanchard) comb. nov.

( Ballantyne and Lambkin 2009 Figs 397–404)

Luciola plagiata Blanchard, 1853:75 , Fig. 15 , plate v. Lacordaire, 1857:337. Olivier, 1902:85.

Luciola caledonica Bourgeois, 1884:285 . Olivier, 1902:75. Heller, in Sarasin and Roux, 1916:243. Fauvel, 1904:139. Synonymy.

Luciola (Luciola) caledonica Bourgeois. McDermott, 1966:100 . Synonymy.

Luciola (Luciola) plagiata Blanchard. McDermott, 1966: 111 . Synonymy.

Pygatyphella plagiata (Blanchard) . Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 97 .

Types. Luciola caledonica Bourgeois. NEW CALEDONIA: Iles des Pins , not found MNHN 2002 by LB .

Luciola plagiata Blanchard. SOLOMON ISLANDS ( Ile St. George). Location of type specimens unknown .

Diagnosis. Moderate sized (6.0– 7.4 mm long); pronotum red yellow with an anterior median dark mark; elytra black; venter of body yellow; median posterior projection of V7 with rounded apex; T8 with ventrally directed flanges on long and vertically expanded anterior prolongations; MPP with dorsal ridge; T8 with short posteromedian ridge; ML of aedeagus with lateral teeth; aedeagal sheath with basal 1/3 of posterior area subparallel-sided.

Figures

FIGURES 9–17. Australoluciola anthracina type male, Cyclops (MNHN). 9, 10 dorsal (9) and ventral; 11 V6, 7 ventral; 12 pronotum dorsal; 13 type labels; 14 aedeagal sheath ventral; 15-17 aedeagus, dorsal (15), ventral (16) and lateral. These figures share scale lines: 15–17.