Australoluciola flavicollis (Macleay), 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 : 50

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scientific name	Australoluciola flavicollis (Macleay)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Australoluciola flavicollis (Macleay) View in CoL comb. nov.

[ Figs 45–55 View FIGURES 45–55 ]

Luciola flavicollis Macleay, 1872:263 View in CoL . Masters, 1886:289. Olliff, 1890:653. Olivier, 1902:79; 1907:52; 1910b:42. Lea,

1909:109; 1921a:197; 1921b:65. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:60; 2009:21. Nec Armitage, 1908:28. Luciola (Luciola) flavicollis Macleay. McDermott, 1966:104 View in CoL . Calder, 1998:179. Luciola Gestroi Olivier, 1885:366 View in CoL ; 1902:79; 1907:52; 1910b:42; 1913b:417 (Synonymy). Masters, 1886:289. McDermott,

1966:104. [ Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45–55 ]. Luciola gestroi Olivier, 1909b :lxxxi. Lea, 1909:109. (Synonymy). Luciola coarcticollis Olivier, 1888:59 ; 1902:76; 1907:51; 1909b:lxxxi; 1910b:42. Lea, 1909:109 (Synonymy). [ Fig. 46 View FIGURES 45–55 ]. Luciola flavicollis var. coarcticollis Olivier. McDermott, 1966:104 (Synonymy) . Nec Luciola gestroi var. nigra Olivier, 1885:366 . McDermott, 1966:104.

Holotype. Male AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 25.37 S, 151.37E, Gayndah ( AMSA). GoogleMaps

Other specimens examined. AUSTRALIA: Queensland, 13.59S, 143.33E Silver Plains Homestead, J. L. Wassell 1.iv.1960 6 females ( ANIC) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males small (4.5–6.5 mm long); pronotum orange; elytra light or dark brown, always with some paler yellow or orange markings along sides or across base ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000 Fig. 19 View FIGURES 18–25 ; Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45–55 ); ventral body very dark brown to black except for pale yellow prothorax, yellow areas of legs, and white LO which is restricted to a median basal area in V7 ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 45–55 ); MPP of V7 prolonged, sub-parallel-sided or with sides tapering posteriorly, and apically emarginate; posterolateral corners of V7 rounded, not projecting ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 45–55 ); aedeagus with relatively short and wide anterior prolongation of ML; lateral margins of LL straight, not expanded in apical ½ ( Figs 49–51 View FIGURES 45–55 ); aedeagal sheath ( Fig. 52, 53 View FIGURES 45–55 ). Female macropterous, coloured as for male except pale LO in V6 only; two wide pairs of plates in bursa, anterior pair with internal ridge ( Figs 54, 55 View FIGURES 45–55 ). Larva similar to that of Aus.nigra , distinguished by the arrangement of tubercles on the dorsum ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000 Fig. 22 c View FIGURES 18–25 ).

References

Armitage, R. W. (1908) Notes on the Queensland Firefly Beetle, Luciola flavicollis. The Victorian Naturalist, XXV, no 2, 28 - 30.

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].

Lea, A. M. (1921 a) On Coleoptera, mostly from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 7, 182 - 240. (Lampyridae, 197 - 198).

Lea, A. M. (1921 b) On Australian Coleoptera of the Family Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Royal society of South Australia, 45, 50 - 135 (Lampyridae, 65 - 68).

Macleay, W. (1872) Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of N. S. W., 2, 239 - 318.

Masters, G. (1886) Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, (2) 1, 259 - 380 (Lampyridae 288 - 289).

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

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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.

Olliff, A. S. (1890) New species of Lampyridae, including a notice of the Mt. Wilson Firefly. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, (2) 4, 643 - 653, 1297

Figures

FIGURES 45–55. Australoluciola spp. 45, 54, 55 Australoluciola flavicollis, male 45, female 54, 55 (ANIC). 46 Luciola coarcticollis type male (MNHN). 47 Luciola gestroi type male (MNHN). 45–47 dorsal; 48 ventral V4–7 and T8; 49–51 aedeagus left lateral (49), ventral (50) and dorsal; 52, 53 aedeagal sheath with aedeagus ventral (52) and dorsal; 54, 55 female bursa from side (54) and beneath (55). Figure legends: 2 posterior plates; 3 anterior plates. These figures share scale lines:49– 51; 52, 53.

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.