Aquilonia, Ballantyne 2009 in Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2009

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 : 46

Key to species of Aquilonia using males

1. Elytra orange yellow with black apices; pronotum and elytra parallel sided; pronotal width subequal to width across the elytral humeri; known only from northern Australia in Cape York peninsula and around Darwin ( Fig. 64 )............ costata (Lea) Elytra pale brown with or without an apical dark area; pronotum with lateral margins divergent posteriorly and width subequal to or wider than width across the elytral humeri; Known from New Guinea at Buna Bay or Misima island ………………….2

2. Without dark elytral apices...................................................... messoria (Olivier) comb. nov. With dark elytral apices ( Fig. 65 )........................................ similismessoria (Ballantyne) comb. nov.

Figures

FIGURES 64–69. Key to genera characters 10. 64 Aquilonia costata; 65, 66 Aq. similismessoria comb. nov.; 67 Magnalata limbata; 68 Atyphella flammans; 69 Aty. aphrogeneia.