Trisinuata microthorax (Olivier) Ballantyne & Lambkin, 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 : 118-119

Trisinuata microthorax (Olivier) comb. nov.

Luciola microthorax Olivier, 1885:364 ; Olivier, 1896:2.

Pteroptyx microthorax (Olivier) . Olivier, 1909a:318; Olivier, 1910b:48; Olivier, 1913b:417. Ballantyne and McLean, 1970:265. Ballantyne, 1987a:156.

Lectotype. Male. INDONESIA: Papua: 1.14S, 134.01E Hatam, lectotype male of Luciola microthorax designated by Ballantyne (1987a) ( MCSN).

Diagnosis. 6.0 mm long; pronotum and MP dingy yellow, MS dark brown; deflexed elytral apex rounded; distinguished by the bilobed PLP ( Ballantyne 1987a Fig. 5a, b, c ).

Remarks. Olivier (1885) named the species for the small size of its pronotum, and Ballantyne and McLean (1970) adopted an E/P index (ratio of elytral width measured across bases to pronotal width) in an attempt to characterise it. The use of this index has been discontinued; microthorax is amply characterised by features of its terminal abdomen. Helgen et al. (2008) indicated Hatam is a village in the Arfak Mountains of the Vogelkop peninsula.

Figures

FIGURES 3–5. Majority rule tree for the complete analysis of the Luciolinae. Analysis consisted of consensus of 169 MPTs with a length of 5609 from a data set of 143 taxa and 436 morphological characters in (see Table 3). Figure 3, part 1: nodes 1– 34; 4, part 2 Nodes 35–52; 5, part 3 nodes 55–76. Nodes (red). New genera, new species, and still undescribed species in red and bold, with identification numbers blue. Black values above branches show the % of MPTs over 50 %.