Medeopteryx torricelliensis (Ballantyne) 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 : 96

Medeopteryx torricelliensis (Ballantyne) comb. nov.

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Pteroptyx torricelliensis Ballantyne , in Ballantyne & McLean, 1970:258.

Holotype. Male. NEW GUINEA: West Sepik Pr. , 3.23S, 142.14E. Torricelli Mountains, Mokai Village, 750m, i.1.1959 ( BPBM).

Diagnosis. Moderately large (10–11mm long); pronotum and MS reddish orange, MN brown medially, orange laterally; elytra black; most similar to Medeopteryx antennata , distinguished by the uniformly dark antennae, the nature of the posterior margin of V7 ( Ballantyne & McLean 1970 Fig. 14 ), and its restricted distribution.

Remarks. This distinctive species is known only from the two specimens originally described and an additional specimen listed here.

Figures

FIGURES 177–184. Medeopteryx spp. Males. 177–182 M. similispupillae sp. nov. paratypes. 183 M. torricelliensis. 184 M. sublustris, diagrammatic representation of pronotal sculpturing. 177, 183 dorsal; 178, 179 abdomen, ventral (178) and dorsal; 180–182 aedeagus dorsal (180), left lateral (181) and ventral (182). These figures share scale lines: 180–182

FIGURES 9–17. Australoluciola anthracina type male, Cyclops (MNHN). 9, 10 dorsal (9) and ventral; 11 V6, 7 ventral; 12 pronotum dorsal; 13 type labels; 14 aedeagal sheath ventral; 15-17 aedeagus, dorsal (15), ventral (16) and lateral. These figures share scale lines: 15–17.