Atyphella inconspicua (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 : 46

publication ID	11755334
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5324284
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scientific name	Atyphella inconspicua (Lea)
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Atyphella inconspicua (Lea) View in CoL

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Luciola inconspicua Lea, 1921a:197 View in CoL .

Luciola (Luciola) inconspicua Lea. McDermott, 1966:106 View in CoL .

Atyphella inconspicua (Lea) View in CoL comb. n. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998: 177. Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 38, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.

Lectotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: 16.55 S, 145.46 E, Cairns district , designated by Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000 ( QM). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. A relatively small species (<8 mm long) with brown elytra and pronotum with a median dark mark; similar to A. conspicua , distinguished by the parallel-sided pronotal margins, and pronotal width not exceeding humeral width; females brachelytral, elytra contiguous in mid-line, hind wings absent. Larva not associated.