Poluninius selangoriensis, Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2013

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2013, Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera, Zootaxa 3653 (1), pp. 1-162 : 101

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72A07BC6-AEB0-4EBC-AFA8-F5871065680F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5266895

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E46FF216-5E66-C529-FF6F-BBBFFB1EEBD1

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Felipe

scientific name

Poluninius selangoriensis
status

sp. nov.

Poluninius selangoriensis View in CoL sp. nov.

[ Figs 185–190 View FIGURES 185–190 ]

Type. Male. MALAYSIA: Selangor, I. Polunin ( ANIC) .

Paratypes (3). Two males same data as holotype ( ANIC). Kg Kuantan village orchard, DZA outside, coll Kat, male ( FRIM) .

Diagnosis. The only species of Poluninius , distinguished by its pale dorsal colouration and the fleshy lobes on V7.

Male. 5.1–5.5 mm long. Colour: Dorsal surface of pronotum and elytra pale yellowish brown with narrow black areas at the tips of the elytra; Selangor specimens preserved in 70% ethanol appear semitransparent, with elytra are slightly darker than the pronotum because of underlying hind wings; head between eyes dark brown; maxillary palpi mid brown; apical labial palpomere mid brown, remainder yellowish; ventral surface of thorax and legs orange yellow except for brown tibiae and tarsi of legs 1, and brown tarsi of legs 2, 3; dorsal and ventral surface of abdomen very pale yellowish, except for white LOs in V6, 7.

Pronotum 1.0– 1.1 mm long; 1.4–1.5 mm wide; W/L 1.4. Elytra 5.1–5.5 mm long. GHW 1.2 mm; SIW 0.2 mm.

Etymology. The type locality is latinised, genitive case to reflect the origins of this species.

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

FRIM

Forest Research Institute, Malaysia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Poluninius

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