Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn) 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 : 109

Pygoluciola cowleyi (Blackburn) comb. nov.

Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn, 1897:34 . Olivier, 1902:76; 1907:51. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:197.

Luciola (Luciola) cowleyi Blackburn. McDermott, 1966:102 . Ballantyne, 1968:125. Ballantyne in Calder 1998:178. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2000:58; 2009:22.

Luciola cowleyi Blackburn. Fu et al. 2012a:6 .

Luciola quadricostata Pic, 1938:3 . Ballantyne, 1968:125 (Synonymy).

Holotype. Male. Luciola Cowleyi Blackburn Australia, North Queensland: ( NHML).

Holotype. Male. Luciola quadricostata Pic North Australia (Natural History Museum, Basel).

Other specimens examined. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 12.27S, 130.50E, Darwin, male W. K. Hunt ( UQIC) , 11 males ( SAMA) , male ( QMBA), 2 males ( MUMA) , 2 males, G. F. Hill ( UQIC) , 4 males G. F. Hill ( ANIC) , 6 males, G. F. Hill ( SAMA) ; 14 males, 5 larvae, 11–12.ii.1945, B. Malkin ( USNM) ; male, iii.1943, N. R Laird ( ANIC) . 12.33S, 131.02E, Virginia near Darwin, S M Gregg 24 males (Jan–March 1998; one male taken in Feb at light); 12 males (Feb and Dec 1999; 8 males taken in Feb at light; male taken in Dec at light); 2 males (March 2000, at light); 4 males (Feb and Dec 2001; one Dec male and 3 Feb. males taken at light) ( MAGNT) . 13.45S, 138.41E, Daly River Mission, 2 males, 14.i.1974, at light, J. F. Hutchinson ( ANIC) .

Diagnosis. Males small (5–5.5 mm long), pale brown, head deeply excavated between eyes; eyes very large, almost contiguous ventrally and bearing posterolateral excavations; inner two interstitial lines closest to sutural ridge well defined, outermost line nearest lateral margin moderately defined, second line in from lateral margin poorly defined; apical labial palpomere small, ovoid, entire; antennal length slightly less than GHW; labrum small, about as wide as long. Ventral surface of T8 without flanges and ridges. Aedeagus with a very short median lobe and broad hair bearing LL. Ballantyne (1968) redescribed and figured males and Ballantyne & Lambkin (2000) gave a short diagnosis.

Female. Not associated.

Larva. Larvae are associated by label data only. 8 mm long; dorsal surface very shiny, brown; without laterally explanate tergal margins; dorsal surface covered with short brown spines (all terga but the last bear 4 short rounded projections across their posterior margin).