Luciola Laporte 1833

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 : 85-87

Luciola Laporte 1833 s. str.

Figs 246−314

Luciola Laporte s. str. (sensu Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 64 ).

Luciola Laporte 1833: 146 . Lacordaire 1857: 335. Motschulsky 1853: 52. Gorham 1880: 99. Olivier 1902: 69; 1907: 50. Lea 1909: 106. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 64 . Yiu 2012: 92; 2017: 92. Fu 2014: 23.

Type species: Luciola pedemontana Motschulsky designated by Motschulsky 1853.

Luciola (Luciola) Laporte. McDermott 1966: 103 (Partim) . Nec Calder 1998: 178.

Bourgeoisia Olivier. Olivier 1908: 17 ; 1911b: 102. McDermott 1966: 117. Deheyn & Ballantyne 2009: 47. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 64.

Type species: Luciola antipodum Bourgeois designated by McDermott 1966.

Diagnosis. Ballantyne & Lambkin (2013: 64) defined Luciola s. str. based on specimens of the type species from Pisa, Italy, and gave an extensive diagnosis which included the aedeagal LL visible beside the ML, the strongly curved ML of the aedeagus terminating in a preapical point, and elongate narrow pointed lobes arising from the inner ventral margins of the LL ( Jeng et al. 2003b figs 21A–C). The following genitalic features vary within what we assign here to Luciola s. str.: 1. Slender projections on the inner surfaces of the LL of the aedeagus ( Fig. 308 arrowed); present in all species except antipodum , aquilaclara , hypocrita , oculofissa and jengai sp. nov. 2. Narrowed aedeagal LL which are widely separated along their mid dorsal line and bear a small hook along the inner margins; present in antipodum , aquilaclara and oculofissa ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 111, 112). 3. Aedeagal ML strongly expanded in basal area with apical area very much narrowed (most obviously seen in chapaensis , curtithorax , kagiana , near nicollieri , parvula and satoi . 4. Aedeagal sheath with median anterior margin of sheath tergite with a well defined and usually anteriorly truncated projection (e.g. Figs 261, 265 , 305 ), seen in horni , pallidipes , niah sp. nov. and tiomana sp nov.

Females may be macropterous or flightless, and associated larvae have laterally explanate tergal margins.

Remarks. Ballantyne & Lambkin (2009, 2013) included specimens of Luciola italica in their analyses and found it to be distinctive. In 2013 they defined and described Luciola s. str. in which they included 6 species including specimens of Lampyroidea syriaca Costa, the type species of Lampyroidea Costa. Their results indicated that syriaca belonged in Luciola s. str. but there has been no formal assignment of this species to Luciola ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009 fig. 2 page 22; 2013 fig. 2 red node 37, blue number 16). Given that the remaining species of Lampyroidea occur outside the study area in question this matter was not followed by any attempt to revise the remaining species of Lampyroidea and the issue is dealt with subsequently under Taxonomic issue unresolved.

Here we expand Luciola s. str. to include 17 species including three new species and two tentative identifications made by Yiu (2017). Luciola chapaensis Pic (1923) is redescribed and assigned here and synonymised with L. atripes Pic (1929) .

There are several more species which could be assigned here. They are being addressed elsewhere (Fu Oba and Ballantyne in prep.) and include Luciola sp. in Fu (2014: 50) as well as a possible Luciola pieli Pic ( Fu 2014: 24) . Yiu (2012) listed four unidentified species which he tentatively assigned to Luciola and (2017) expanded his treatment to address them as one new species, tuberculata , and three as near curtithorax , near laticollis and near nicollieri . The species with tentative identifications will be further investigated under Luciola s. lato. Fu (2014: 23–27, 30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 41, 43, 45) addressed 16 species which he assigned to “ Luciola ”, and of these we can assign five (pages 23, 26, 30, 32, 37) to Luciola s. str. and they are addressed below. One further species ( Fu 2014: 50, 51) is presently undescribed (Fu pers. com. indicated it has a ‘jumping’ female, which can propel herself by expanding her elytra). The remainder are either assigned to various genera, or certain unidentified species are addressed in the discussion. Fu (2014: 24) identified specimens as Luciola pieli , but indicated that preliminary molecular investigation placed them in with Luciola curtithorax (Fu pers. com.). It is presently included in Luciola s. lato.

Figures

FIGURES 246−257. Luciola chapaensis males. 246, 253 Luciola atripes type MNHN; 247 Luciola chapaensis type male MNHN; 248−251, 254−257 Malaysia Kelantan males; 246 elytra; 247, 248 habitus dorsal; 249 habitus ventral; 250, 251 abdo- men: 250 ventral; 251 dorsal; 254−256 aedeagus: 254 ventral; 255 dorsal; 256 left lateral; 257 aedeagal sheath dorsal (arrow indicates area of prolongation of sheath tergite). Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 258−269. Luciola horni males. 258, 259, 269 type male; 260−265, 267, 268 Halupahani male (NHML); 266 India male (Prague). 258, 266, 267 habitus dorsal; 259 habitus ventral; 260, 261, 265 aedeagal sheath: 260 ventral; 261, 265 dorsal (260, 261 under transmitted light from below); 262, 263 aedeagus: 262 ventral; 263 right lateral; 268 tergites 7, 8 dorsal; 269 label. Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 270−279. Luciola jengai sp. nov. type males. 270, 273 habitus dorsal; 271, 272 habitus ventral; 274, 275 abdomen: 274 dorsal; 275 ventral; 276 tergite 8 and aedeagal sheath ventral; 277−279 aedeagus: 277 dorsal; 279 ventral; 279 left lateral. Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 280–283. Luciola jengai sp. nov. possible females. 284−291. Luciola niah sp. nov. type male and female. 280, 284, 286 habitus dorsal; 281, 285, 287 habitus ventral; 282, 283 abdomen: 282 ventral; 283 dorsal; 288, 289 aedeagal sheath: 288 ventral; 289 dorsal; 290, 291 aedeagus: 290 ventral; 291 dorsal. Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 292−304. Luciola pallidipes males. Holotype male (NHML) 292, 293, 300−302; Perak male (Prague) 294; Brunei male (NHML) 295; Seram male (Prague) 296−299; Pahang male (BPBM) 303, 304. 292−296, 304 habitus dorsal; 293, 297, 303 habitus ventral; 298, 299 abdomen: 298 ventral; 299 dorsal; 300 detail head pronotum and base of elytra dorsal; 301 anterior head; 302 type label. Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 305−308. Luciola pallidipes male. 305−308 aedeagal sheath: 305 dorsal (arrow indicates prolonged margin of sheath tergite; aedeagus removed); 306−308 aedeagal sheath with aedeagus: 306 right lateral (arrow indicates prolonged margin of sheath tergite); 307 dorsal; 308 ventral (arrows indicate leaf like lobes from LL of aedeagus). Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 309−314. Luciola tiomana sp. nov. type males. 309, 310 habitus dorsal (309 Prague; 310 FRIM); 311 habitus ventral; 312, 313 abdomen: 312 ventral; 313 dorsal; 314 tergite 8, aedeagal sheath and aedeagus, dorsal. Scale line is 1 mm.