Australoluciola japenensis Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2013, sp. 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 japenensis

description: <i>Australoluciola japenensis</i> sp. nov. [Figs 38–44] <b>Holotype.</b> Male. <b>INDONESIA</b> (as Dutch New Guinea): 1.45S, 136.08E, Japen Island Mt Baduri 1000 feet viii.1938 LEC (NHML). <b>Paratypes</b> (13). Same locality as holotype, 2 males, 11 females (NHML). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Dorsal surface yellowish orange except for narrow dusky brown apex of elytra; distinguished from all other <i>Australoluciola</i> by the dorsal colouration; one of two <i>Australoluciola</i> with expanded and curved femora 3 and the curved tibiae 3 in the male (similar to Fig. 37). Distinguished from <i>Aus. baduri</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. by the elytral colouration; MPP longer than wide, considerably longer than the rounded posterolateral corners of V7 (Fig. 44). <b>Male.</b> 4.8 <b>–</b> 5.5 mm long. Colour: pronotum, MS, and elytra yellowish orange, elytra with restricted dusky apical area; MN whitish due to underlying fat body; head between eyes yellowish, labrum brown, antennae and apical palpomeres dark brown; ventral surface of body (excluding LOs) yellowish except for brown apices of femora 1, 2 and brown tibiae and tarsi 1, 2; LO in V6, 7 whitish, extending into PLP and MPP except for a very narrow posterior margin; dorsal surface of abdomen including terminal tergites yellowish. Pronotum: 1.4–1.5 mm wide, 0.8–1.0 mm long; W/L = 1.5–1.8; midanterior margin rounded, not projecting beyond angulate anterolateral corners; lateral margins subparallel-sided (A=B=C or B=C); punctures contiguous or separated by up to their width. Elytra: pin punctate, often irregularly so along margins, punctures separated by their width. Head: gently excavated between eyes; GHW 0.9–1.0 mm; SIW 0.2 mm; ASD&gt; ASW. Abdomen (Fig. 44; similar to Figs 35, 36): V3, V4 posterior margins not recurved; posterior margin of V7 trisinuate, posterolateral corners rounded, not produced as far as MPP (Fig. 44); LOs in V7 occupying most of the area and reaching to sides and well into PLP and MPP except for a very narrow posterior margin; MPP apex truncate slightly rounded, L&gt;W. T8: posterior margin straight (Fig. 44); ventral surface with lateral ridges effaced anteriorly, no flanges. Aedeagus (Figs 39 -41): anterior portion of ML slender and prolonged (arrowed in Figs); lateral margins of LL straight, tapering to apex; apices of LL narrowly rounded; L/W 5.0. Aedeagal sheath (Figs 42, 43). <b>Female.</b> Associated by label data only. Macropterous, coloured as for male except for ventral abdomen where ventrites preceding LO are brownish; LO white; V7, 8 semitransparent yellowish. Bursa plates (Fig. 38) observed through whole abdomen soaked in cold KOH, wide and paired. <b>Etymology</b>. The specific name (latinised, genitive case) derives from the type locality, meaning “of japen”. <b>Remarks</b>. Two species of <i>Australoluciola</i> bear swollen hind femora and curved tibiae, a feature seen in most species of <i>Pyrophanes</i>, but lack the MFC. The possible functions of such male leg modifications are discussed subsequently.
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 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340