Australoluciola nigra (Olivier), 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 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5266820
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scientific name	Australoluciola nigra (Olivier)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Australoluciola nigra (Olivier) View in CoL comb. nov.

Luciola Gestroi View in CoL var. nigra Olivier, 1885:366 View in CoL .

Luciola (Luciola) nigra Olivier View in CoL stat. nov. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998: 179. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:63; 2009:21.

Luciola humilis Olivier, 1896:2 View in CoL ; 1902:80; 1907:52. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:7. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179.

Luciola (Luciola) humilis Olivier. McDermott, 1966:105 View in CoL . Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy).

Luciola scutellaris Lea, 1929:344 View in CoL . Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy).

Luciola (Luciola) scutellaris Lea. McDermott, 1966:113 View in CoL .

Holotype. Male. Luciola humilis QUEENSLAND: Cairns ( NHML).

Other specimens examined. NEW GUINEA: 8.51S, 143.11E, Western district Oriomo 3m, 6.viii.1964 H Clissold male ( BPBM). 146.40E, 7.22S, Wau Morobe Dist Big Wau Creek 1300m xi.1965 JLG malaise trap male ( BPBM) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males small to medium (4.8–7.6 mm long); pronotum orange, MS orange or black; elytra very dark brown, almost black; ventral surface of metathorax, and of V2–5 black; white LO occupying all of V6 (lateral margins sometimes dark brown); LO restricted to median basal area of V7, which is otherwise black; pronotal punctures small, shallow, mostly contiguous; MPP of V7 conspicuously produced, and may be slightly emarginate at apex; ventral surface of T8 with lateral ridges without flanges. Female macropterous, coloured as for male except for pale cream LO in V6. Larva dorsally pale with a broad pale median band ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000 Fig. 22c View FIGURES 18–25 ), distinguished from the very similar larvae of Aus. australis and Aus. orapallida in without marginal tubercles along the anterior margin of the protergum.

References

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. (1929) On Coleoptera, mostly from Queensland (Part 11). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, IX, 335 - 363 (Lampyridae, 344 - 345).

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

Olivier, E. (1885) Catalogue des Lampyrides faisant partie des collections du Musee Civique de Genes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, (2 a) 2, 333 - 374.

Olivier, E. (1896) Descriptions de nouvelles especes de Lampyrides du Musee de Tring. Novitates Zoologicae III (no. 1), 1 - 3.

Olivier, E. (1902) Catalogue des especes de ' Luciola' et genres voisins decrits jusqu'a ce jour. Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais et du centre de la France, 15, 69 - 88.

Olivier, E. (1907) Coleoptera, Lampyridae. Genera Insectorum, 53, 1 - 74 [Luciolinae, 48 - 56].

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.

Abbreviations

NHML	Natural History Museum, Tripoli
BPBM	Bishop Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Lampyridae
Genus	Australoluciola