Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 1997, pp. 1-188 : 50

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scientific name	Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915
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Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915 View in CoL

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Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915:494 View in CoL ; 1921a:197; 1921c:7. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:177 (comb. rev.). Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:48, 2001:364, 2006:30.

Atyphella Olivieri Lea. Olivier 1910b:47 View in CoL ; 1911:172.

Luciola (Luciola) oliveris (Lea) . McDermott, 1964:16. Unnecessary Nom. Nov.

Luciola (Luciola) olivierius (Lea) View in CoL . McDermott, 1966:110. Unnecessary name change or probable misspelling for L. oliveris McDermott 1964 .

Lectotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Cairns , designated by Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000 ( QM).

Diagnosis. Known from its conspicuous dorsal colouration; pronotum very pale cream with median dark mark; elytra dark brown with broad cream lateral, sutural and apical borders. Female macropterous coloured as for male. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000:50) described larvae taken in the vicinity of flying males.