Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne, 2000

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 : 49

publication ID	11755334
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5324292
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scientific name	Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne, 2000
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Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne, 2000 View in CoL

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Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne View in CoL in Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 41, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.

Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Mt Lewis Road , via Julatten ( ANIC).

Diagnosis. One of the six Australian species with striped elytra; small (<6 mm long); similar to A. brevis and A. ellioti , distinguished by its size, convex frons-vertex junction, 2 interstitial lines and the apparently bipartite LO in V7; probable female brachelytral, hind wings absent, elytra do not approach in mid-line. Larva not associated.