Luciola, 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 : 87-88

Key to species of Luciola s. str. as defined here, using males and associated females

1. Male............................................................................................... 2 Female ............................................................................................ 14

2. Light organs absent; very dark brown to black species with pronounced posterolateral eye emargination; known only from New Caledonia ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 120 121, 124, 125)............................... oculofissa Ballantyne Light organs present in at least one abdominal ventrite; eye emargination present or not............................. 3

3. Eyes with strong posterolateral emargination clearly visible in resting head ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 fig. 110)....... 4 Eyes without a visible posterolateral emargination, or with a weak emargination usually covered by the pronotum........ 5

4. No light organs in V7; light organs in V6 reduced to anterolateral plaques; known only from Fiji......... hypocrita Olivier Light organs in both V6 and 7 entire, may be retracted from lateral margins ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 114, 119)....................................................................................... antipodum Bourgeois

5. Dorsal surface completely black or very dark brown.......................................................... 6 Dorsal surface never completely dark brown; pronotum usually pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking..... 7

6. Known only from New Caledonia; aedeagal LL widely separated along their inner dorsal margins with a rounded projection along inner dorsal margins approximately half their length from their apices ( Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 111, 112)...................................................................................... aquilaclara Ballantyne A S. E. Asian species sometimes from high altitudes; aedeagal LL not widely separated along their inner dorsal margins and without rounded projection as described above ( Fig. 307 )........................................... pallidipes Pic

7. Dorsal surface pale yellowish brown with dark elytral apices....................................................8 Dorsal surface not as above; pronotum may be black; elytra usually dark brown to black............................. 9

8. Ventral abdomen with median brown markings on V4–5 with lateral margins converging anteriorly ( Figs 271, 275 )........................................................................................... jengai Nada sp. nov. Ventral abdomen not coloured as above; ventrites anterior to the LO yellowish except for dark posterior margin of V5 (Fig. 285)................................................................................. niah Jusoh sp. nov.

9. Pronotum MN and MS black; elytra light brown with extensive darker brown markings at base and apex ( Figs 309, 310 )................................................................................ tiomana Ballantyne sp. nov. Dorsal surface with elytra black and pronotum pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking.................. 10

10. Pronotum uniformly pale coloured with no darker markings.................................................. 11 Pronotum always with median darker markings.............................................................12

11. Large thick bodied, 10.5− 15 mm long ( Chen 2003: 168)...................................... .. kagiana Matsumura Smaller , 6.5− 10 mm long ( Chen 2003: 169 as Luciola sp. 3)........................................ satoi Jeng et al.

12. Pronotum orange with darker median markings; pronounced tubercles along posterior margin ( Yiu 2017 fig. 22f)................................................................................................ .. tuberculata Yiu If pronotum with darker median markings then no tubercles across posterior margin............................... 13

13. Elytra dark brown to black with dark apices; 6 mm long species from Sri Lanka with dark brown elytra and orange pronotum having a wide median dark band ( Figs 258, 266, 267 )............................................ horni Bourgeois Elytra pale brown with white apices; 10 mm long; known from Vietnam; pronotum pale yellowish, may have pale brown median marking ( Figs 246−247 )........................................................... chapaensis comb. nov.

14. Female fully winged and flight capable (Chen: 172)............................................ curtithorax Olivier Female flightless..................................................................................... 15

15. Female with elytra usually covering abdomen and hind wings absent............................ parvula Kiesenwetter Female with short elytra up to twice as long as median pronotal length (Chen: 170, 171)................ filiformis Olivier

Figures

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 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 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.

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 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.