Pacifica limbatipennis (Pic), 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 : 98-99

Pacifica limbatipennis (Pic) comb. nov.

( Ballantyne and Lambkin 2009 Figs 330–337, 339, 340, 342–361, 364–369, 372–376)

Atyphella salomonis var limbatipennis Pic, 1911:165 .

Luciola (Luciola) salomonis var. limbatipennis (Pic) . McDermott, 1966:112.

Pygatyphella limbatipennis (Pic) . Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 90 .

Holotype. Male. SOLOMON ISLANDS: labelled 1. Printed label ‘Type’; 2. Printed ‘ Solomon Is R A Lever’; 3. Lunga; 4. Handwritten ‘ Atyphella salomonis var limbatipennis Pic ; 5. Handwriting unclear could be Gauda (? = Guadalcanal) 7 Dec ( NHML).

Diagnosis. One of the Pygatyphella B complex of Ballantyne and Lambkin (2009); dorsal colouration orange pronotum with dark brown elytra which are pale margined along their lateral margins; most similar to Pac. limbatifusca (Ballantyne) , distinguished by the absence of small paired dark markings on the pronotum, the very dark brown elytra and the narrower lateral pale band. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2009) distinguished this from other similarly coloured species on page 69 and from Pygat. salomonis in Tables 8, 9.