Pygoluciola cowleyi 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
Pygoluciola
Pygoluciola cowleyi

description: <i>Pygoluciola cowleyi</i> (Blackburn) comb. nov. <i>Luciola Cowleyi</i> Blackburn, 1897:34. Olivier, 1902:76; 1907:51. Lea, 1909:108; 1921a:197. <i>Luciola (Luciola) cowleyi</i> Blackburn. McDermott, 1966:102. Ballantyne, 1968:125. Ballantyne in Calder 1998:178. Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2000:58; 2009:22. <i>Luciola cowleyi</i> Blackburn. Fu <i>et al</i>. 2012a:6. <i>Luciola quadricostata</i> Pic, 1938:3. Ballantyne, 1968:125 (Synonymy). <b>Holotype.</b> Male. <i>Luciola Cowleyi</i> Blackburn Australia, North Queensland: (NHML). <b>Holotype.</b> Male. <i>Luciola quadricostata</i> Pic North Australia (Natural History Museum, Basel). <b>Other specimens examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA</b>: 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). <b>Diagnosis.</b> 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 &amp; Lambkin (2000) gave a short diagnosis. <b>Female.</b> Not associated. <b>Larva</b>. 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).
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 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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