Australoluciola nigra Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Australoluciola
Australoluciola nigra

description: <i>Australoluciola nigra</i> (Olivier) comb. nov. <i>Luciola Gestroi</i> var. <i>nigra</i> Olivier, 1885:366. <i>Luciola (Luciola) nigra</i> Olivier stat. nov. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998: 179. Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2000:63; 2009:21. <i>Luciola humilis</i> Olivier, 1896:2; 1902:80; 1907:52. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:7. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179. <i>Luciola (Luciola) humilis</i> Olivier. McDermott, 1966:105. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy). <i>Luciola scutellaris</i> Lea, 1929:344. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:179 (synonymy). <i>Luciola (Luciola) scutellaris</i> Lea. McDermott, 1966:113. <b>Holotype</b>. Male. <i>Luciola humilis</i> <b>QUEENSLAND</b>: Cairns (NHML). Other specimens examined. <b>NEW GUINEA</b>: 8.51S, 143.11E, Western district Oriomo 3m, 6.viii.1964 H Clissold male (BPBM). 146.40E, 7.22S, Wau Morobe Dist Big Wau Creek 1300m xi.1965 JLG malaise trap male (BPBM). <b>Diagnosis</b>. Males small to medium (4.8–7.6 mm long); pronotum orange, MS orange or black; elytra very dark brown, almost black; ventral surface of metathorax, and of V2–5 black; white LO occupying all of V6 (lateral margins sometimes dark brown); LO restricted to median basal area of V7, which is otherwise black; pronotal punctures small, shallow, mostly contiguous; MPP of V7 conspicuously produced, and may be slightly emarginate at apex; ventral surface of T8 with lateral ridges without flanges. Female macropterous, coloured as for male except for pale cream LO in V6. Larva dorsally pale with a broad pale median band (Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2000 Fig. 22c), distinguished from the very similar larvae of <i>Aus. australis</i> and <i>Aus. orapallida</i> in without marginal tubercles along the anterior margin of the protergum.
description: Published as part of <i>Ballantyne, Lesley A. &amp; Lambkin, Christine L., 2013, Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera, pp. 1-162 in Zootaxa 3653 (1)</i> on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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