Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn), 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 : 109

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72A07BC6-AEB0-4EBC-AFA8-F5871065680F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5266901
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scientific name	Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn) View in CoL comb. nov.

Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn, 1897:34 View in CoL . Olivier, 1902:76; 1907:51. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:197.

Luciola (Luciola) cowleyi Blackburn. McDermott, 1966:102 View in CoL . Ballantyne, 1968:125. Ballantyne in Calder 1998:178. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:58; 2009:22.

Luciola cowleyi Blackburn. Fu et al. 2012a:6 View in CoL .

Luciola quadricostata Pic, 1938:3 View in CoL . Ballantyne, 1968:125 (Synonymy).

Holotype. Male. Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn Australia, North Queensland: ( NHML).

Holotype. Male. Luciola quadricostata Pic North Australia (Natural History Museum, Basel).

Other specimens examined. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 12.27S, 130.50E, Darwin, male W. K. Hunt ( UQIC) GoogleMaps , 11 males ( SAMA) , male ( QMBA), 2 males ( MUMA) , 2 males, G. F. Hill ( UQIC) , 4 males G. F. Hill ( ANIC) , 6 males, G. F. Hill ( SAMA) ; 14 males, 5 larvae, 11–12.ii.1945, B. Malkin ( USNM) ; male, iii.1943, N. R Laird ( ANIC) . 12.33S, 131.02E, Virginia near Darwin, S M Gregg 24 males (Jan–March 1998; one male taken in Feb at light); 12 males (Feb and Dec 1999; 8 males taken in Feb at light; male taken in Dec at light); 2 males (March 2000, at light); 4 males (Feb and Dec 2001; one Dec male and 3 Feb. males taken at light) ( MAGNT) GoogleMaps . 13.45S, 138.41E, Daly River Mission, 2 males, 14.i.1974, at light, J. F. Hutchinson ( ANIC) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males small (5–5.5 mm long), pale brown, head deeply excavated between eyes; eyes very large, almost contiguous ventrally and bearing posterolateral excavations; inner two interstitial lines closest to sutural ridge well defined, outermost line nearest lateral margin moderately defined, second line in from lateral margin poorly defined; apical labial palpomere small, ovoid, entire; antennal length slightly less than GHW; labrum small, about as wide as long. Ventral surface of T8 without flanges and ridges. Aedeagus with a very short median lobe and broad hair bearing LL. Ballantyne (1968) redescribed and figured males and Ballantyne & Lambkin (2000) gave a short diagnosis.

Female. Not associated.

Larva. Larvae are associated by label data only. 8 mm long; dorsal surface very shiny, brown; without laterally explanate tergal margins; dorsal surface covered with short brown spines (all terga but the last bear 4 short rounded projections across their posterior margin).

References

Ballantyne, L. A. (1968) Revisional Studies of Australian and Indomalayan Luciolini (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae). University of Queensland Papers, Department of Entomology, University of Queensland Press, II, no 6, 103 - 139.

Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. (2000) Lampyridae of Australia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 46 (1), 15 - 93.

Blackburn, T. (1897) XXI. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 21, 28 - 39.

Calder, A. A. (1998) Coleoptera: Elateroidea In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 29.6 (CSIRO Publishing Melbourne).

Fu, X. H., Ballantyne, Lesley & Lambkin, Christine (2012 a) Emeia gen. nov., a new genus of Luciolinae fireflies from China (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) with an unusual trilobite-like larva, and a redescription of the genus Curtos Motschulsky. Zootaxa, 3403, 1 - 53.

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).

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

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].

Pic, M. (1938) Lampyridae, Drilidae, Cantharidae, Malachiidae, und Prionoceridae. in Handschin, E., Studienreise auf den Sundainsein und in Nord Australien 1930 - 32. Entomologische Berichten, 10, 3.

Abbreviations

NHML	Natural History Museum, Tripoli
UQIC	University of Queensland Insect Collection
SAMA	South Australia Museum
ANIC	Australian National Insect Collection
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
MAGNT	Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory