Pteroptyx species

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lloyd, James E., 2013, Working and reference check list for fireflies of Melanesia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), Zootaxa 3736 (3), pp. 277-284 : 281

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3736.3.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C3E21F1A-B054-42C5-B338-270DA8422DAC
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E87E1-C90A-FFB7-769E-0470FDDBFCB6
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pteroptyx species
status

Treatment

Pteroptyx species 15.

Current species identification: Medeopteryx effulgens ( Ballantyne 1987a) .

References: Lloyd 1973b, p. 997; 1973c, p. 268; Ballantyne 1987a, p. 141; Ballantyne and Lambkin, 2013, p. 87; Ballantyne & McLean 1970, Pl. 1 j,k; Hanson et al. 1971, p. 161; Hanson 1978, p. 2158; Buck et al. 1981a, p. 287; 1981b, p. 277.

Comments: Hanson 1978, Hanson et al. 1971, Buck et al. 1981a,b, and Ballantyne & McLean 1970, all identify an orange head species occurring in New Britain, as Pteroptyx cribellata , thus conforming with Ballantyne and McLean's (1970) composite view of this species. Ballantyne (1987a) erected Pteroptyx effulgens for New Britain fireflies with deflexed elytral apices and orange head, and Ballantyne and Lambkin (2013) transferred the species to Medeopteryx .

Specimens in JELC: G630 , 631 , 633–636 , 644 (paratypes) .

Specimens in ANIC: G629 About ANIC (holotype) .