Luciola Ho 2019, s. str.
Creators: name: Ho, - Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Luciola

description: Key to species of Luciola s. str. as defined here, using males and associated females
1. Male............................................................................................... 2 Female ............................................................................................ 14
2. Light organs absent; very dark brown to black species with pronounced posterolateral eye emargination; known only from New Caledonia (Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 120 121, 124, 125)............................... oculofissa Ballantyne Light organs present in at least one abdominal ventrite; eye emargination present or not............................. 3
3. Eyes with strong posterolateral emargination clearly visible in resting head (Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 fig. 110)....... 4 Eyes without a visible posterolateral emargination, or with a weak emargination usually covered by the pronotum........ 5
4. No light organs in V7; light organs in V6 reduced to anterolateral plaques; known only from Fiji ......... hypocrita Olivier Light organs in both V6 and 7 entire, may be retracted from lateral margins (Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 114, 119)....................................................................................... antipodum Bourgeois
5. Dorsal surface completely black or very dark brown.......................................................... 6 Dorsal surface never completely dark brown; pronotum usually pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking..... 7
6. Known only from New Caledonia; aedeagal LL widely separated along their inner dorsal margins with a rounded projection along inner dorsal margins approximately half their length from their apices (Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013 figs 111, 112)...................................................................................... aquilaclara Ballantyne A S. E. Asian species sometimes from high altitudes; aedeagal LL not widely separated along their inner dorsal margins and without rounded projection as described above (Fig. 307)........................................... pallidipes Pic
7. Dorsal surface pale yellowish brown with dark elytral apices....................................................8 Dorsal surface not as above; pronotum may be black; elytra usually dark brown to black............................. 9
8. Ventral abdomen with median brown markings on V4–5 with lateral margins converging anteriorly (Figs 271, 275)........................................................................................... jengai Nada sp. nov. Ventral abdomen not coloured as above; ventrites anterior to the LO yellowish except for dark posterior margin of V5 (Fig. 285)................................................................................. niah Jusoh sp. nov.
9. Pronotum MN and MS black; elytra light brown with extensive darker brown markings at base and apex (Figs 309, 310)................................................................................ tiomana Ballantyne sp. nov. Dorsal surface with elytra black and pronotum pale coloured sometimes with a median dark marking.................. 10
10. Pronotum uniformly pale coloured with no darker markings.................................................. 11 Pronotum always with median darker markings.............................................................12
11. Large thick bodied, 10.5− 15 mm long (Chen 2003: 168)...................................... .. kagiana Matsumura Smaller, 6.5− 10 mm long (Chen 2003: 169 as Luciola sp. 3)........................................ satoi Jeng et al.
12. Pronotum orange with darker median markings; pronounced tubercles along posterior margin (Yiu 2017 fig. 22f)................................................................................................ .. tuberculata Yiu If pronotum with darker median markings then no tubercles across posterior margin............................... 13
13. Elytra dark brown to black with dark apices; 6 mm long species from Sri Lanka with dark brown elytra and orange pronotum having a wide median dark band (Figs 258, 266, 267)............................................ horni Bourgeois Elytra pale brown with white apices; 10 mm long; known from Vietnam; pronotum pale yellowish, may have pale brown median marking (Figs 246−247)........................................................... chapaensis comb. nov.
14. Female fully winged and flight capable (Chen: 172)............................................ curtithorax Olivier Female flightless..................................................................................... 15
15. Female with elytra usually covering abdomen and hind wings absent............................ parvula Kiesenwetter Female with short elytra up to twice as long as median pronotal length (Chen: 170, 171)................ filiformis Olivier
description: Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on pages 87-88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098