Atyphella abdominalis ( Olivier 1886 ) Ho, 2019

Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, Zootaxa 4687 (1), pp. 1-174 : 59

Atyphella abdominalis ( Olivier 1886) comb. nov.

Figs 180−187

Luciola abdominalis Olivier 1886: 184 ; 1902: 73. Schultze 1916: 43. Pic 1924: 711. McDermott 1966: 99.

Type. Not located MNHN in 2013 by Ballantyne .

Material examined. PHILIPPINES. Mt Banahao , 2 males. Male 1 labelled 1. Mt Banahao P. I. Baker (printed); 2. C. F. Baker collection (printed); 3 17140 (hand written); Luciola abdominalis E. Oliv. (hand written) with ‘ Pic’ in bottom left corner of label. Male 2 label 1 as above; 2. 2819 (hand written in ink). ( USNM). This information correlates with that given by the original description of Olivier (1886) .

Diagnosis. The only species of Atyphella known from the Philippines and the only species with pale coloured elytra having a small dark coloured area at their apices ( Fig. 180 ; see Table 9 and Ballantyne et al. 2016 Table 5 ); differs from Aquil. costata most obviously in dorsal colour pattern as costata has orange coloured elytra and is only known from northern Australia; pronotum with a median dark marking ( Fig. 181 ) which expands laterally along the anterior margin; MS and MN paler than elytra which are light brownish yellow with a small dark apical area, and are without well-defined interstitial lines; head with rounded frons vertex junction; apical labial palpomere broadly triangular with 2 teeth along the inner margin; basal abdominal ventrites very dark brown almost black ( Fig. 182 ); abdominal tergites all very dark brown except for pale T8 ( Fig. 184 ). Olivier (1886) described this species from one specimen and this characterisation is based on Pic (1924) and specimens identified by him in USNM, which we feel are consistent with Olivier’s original description. Aedeagal sheath and aedeagus ( Figs 185−187 ).

Figures

FIGURES 180−187. Atyphella abdominalis comb. nov. male (USNM). 180, 181 habitus: 180 dorsal; 181 ventral; 182, 184 abdomen: 182 ventral; 184 dorsal; 183 pronotum dorsal; 185−187 aedeagus in aedeagal sheath: 185 ventral; 186 dorsal; 187 right lateral.