Medeopteryx amilae (Satô) 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 : 84

Medeopteryx amilae (Satô) comb. nov.

Pteroptyx amilae Satô, 1976: 1 . Ballantyne et al. 2011:10.

Holotype. Male. PHILIPPINES: 9.52N, 123.35E Cebu Island, Argao, 62 km S of Cebu City , 10.x.1968, (Yokosuka City Museum, Japan).

Diagnosis. With orange pronotum and dark brown elytra; without flashing data; very similar to M. effulgens and M. fulminea , (both of which have associated flashing data), distinguished from M. effulgens by the brown head, and from M. fulminea by its distribution in the Philippines.

Remarks. Previously it was considered that bent-winged fireflies without the MFC were restricted to New Guinea and northern Australia ( Ballantyne, 1987a). M. amilae is the first species without the comb recorded west of the island of New Guinea.

The head colour between the eyes of the holotype as interpreted by LB is medium brown (Satô described it as yellow orange). This colour is characteristic of M. fulminea which is retained because it is based on Behaviour Voucher specimens where accurate light patterns are related to individual specimens. No such data is available for M. amilae .