Aquilonia costata (Lea)

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 1997, pp. 1-188 : 30

publication ID	11755334
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5324224
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scientific name	Aquilonia costata (Lea)
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Aquilonia costata (Lea) View in CoL

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Luciola costata Lea, 1921b:66 View in CoL .

Luciola (Luciola) costata Lea. McDermott, 1966:102 View in CoL . Calder, 1998:178.

Atyphella costata (Lea) . Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:31.

Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 14.44S 131.08E, Flora River, IX.1912, Spencer ( MV). GoogleMaps

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 14.30S, 132.15E, 3 km SSW Katherine , 12.XI.1979 T Weir, 2 males ( ANIC) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males 7.7–9.7 mm long; the only reliably recorded Australian firefly with dorsal yellow/ orange colouration and black elytral apices. Luciola dejeani Gemminger has similar colouration but is probably not Australian and appears close to Luciola chinensis ( Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:59) . Larvae unknown.