Atyphella atra Lea, 1921

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 : 42-43

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5324252

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scientific name

Atyphella atra Lea, 1921
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Atyphella atra Lea, 1921 View in CoL

( Figs 9, 10, 83–85)

Atyphella atra Lea, 1921a:198 View in CoL . Ballantyne in Calder 1998: 177 (comb. rev.) Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 25; 2001: 374, 2006: 30.

Luciola (Luciola) atra (Lea) View in CoL . McDermott, 1966: 99.

Luciola (Atyphella) atra (Lea) View in CoL . Ballantyne & McLean, 1970: 281. Moore, 1989: 136.

Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: 28.19S, 153.05E, Lamington National Park (C2290 QM). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Males distinguished from most other Atyphella by the acute frons-vertex junction, the small (probably non–functional) mouthparts, the contiguous antennal sockets, the brown – dark brown parallelsided elytra; females pale coloured with fully developed elytra and vestigial hind wings; paler male specimens very like A. similis , which has angulate posterolateral pronotal corners, separated antennal sockets, well developed mouthparts and flightless brachelytral females. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000) distinguished atra and similis most obviously by their distinctive females.

QM

Queensland Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Atyphella

Loc

Atyphella atra Lea, 1921

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine 2009
2009
Loc

Luciola (Atyphella) atra (Lea)

Moore, B. P. 1989: 136
Ballantyne, L. A. & McLean, M. R. 1970: 281
1970
Loc

Luciola (Luciola) atra (Lea)

McDermott, F. A. 1966: 99
1966
Loc

Atyphella atra Lea, 1921a:198

Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. 2000: 25
Calder, A. A. 1998: 177
Lea, A. M. 1921: 198
1921
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