Atyphella scabra Olivier LO 1911
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Atyphella
Atyphella scabra

description: <i>Atyphella scabra</i> Olivier, 1911 (Figs 177–185) <i>Atyphella scabra</i> Olivier, 1911, p. 173; 1913, p. 417. <i>Luciola (Luciola) scabia</i> (Olivier). McDermott, 1966, p.112 (Mis-spelling). <b>Holotype</b>. Male. <b>PAPUA NEW GUINEA</b>: Pawarin labelled (Fig. 180): 1. (HW) male symbol; 2. (HW) Pawarin Juin, 1903; 3. typed Nieuw Guinea Expeditie 1903; 4. pink label, (HW) <i>Atyphella scabra</i> Ern Oliv. (MNHN). <b>Other material examined. PAPUA NEW GUINEA</b>: Pawarin Male labelled as for type except lacking identification label. <b>PAPUA NEW GUINEA</b>: 3.17S, 142.35E, Torecella Mt, Sea Falls near Afua, 1700 ft, 1939, P G Moore, 2 males (BPBM). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Distinguished from all other <i>Atyphella</i> by the widely bipartite LO in both V6 and V7, the pointed MPP, the considerable extension of T8 beyond the margin of V7, and the strong elevation of interstitial lines 1, 2 exceeding that of the suture. <b>Male redescription.</b> 7.8–9.0 mm long; 3.2–3.9 mm wide; W/L approx. 2.5. Colour: (Figs 177, 178). Pronotum: dingy orange, median half darker brown and extending to anterior and posterior margins (punctures here ringed in darker brown); elevations above eyes appearing paler in Sea Falls males; head dark brown, antennae and palpi light brown; MN yellow, MS brown not as dark as mid-brown elytra (type elytra slightly darker in anterior half and along interstitial lines 1, 2); narrow area of epipleuron in type male slightly paler brown than rest; ventral thorax pale brown, except for darker brownish semitransparent metasternum; legs pale brown; basal ventrites brown; V6 and 7 semitransparent, areas of LOs yellowish, whitish fat body continuous between LO halves in Sea Falls males, not continuous in type; tergites dingy yellow and semitransparent, ventral surface of T8 orange yellow. Pronotum: 1.6–1.8 mm long; 3.1–3.5 mm wide; W/L 1.9–2.1; dorsal surface smooth, densely punctate, punctures contiguous over most of surface; lateral margins divergent posteriorly with rounded convergence; posterolateral corners rounded obtuse, projecting little behind median posterior margin; anterior portion of hypomeron flat; posterior portion of hypomeron flat, both areas closely adpressed (Fig. 178). Elytron (Fig. 177): convex-sided; 2 well–defined interstitial lines (1, 2) more strongly elevated than, and 1.5 to 2 X as thick as sutural ridge; basal edges of line 2 and inner margin of line 1 bearing single line of punctures larger than rest, irregular in shape and size; epipleuron and suture continue around apex as a ridge, not thickened in their apical half. Head: not able to be retracted within prothoracic cavity; GHW 1.8–2.3 mm; SIW 0.15–0.2 mm; SIW/GHW 1/9–1/11; ASD&lt;ASW, antennal sockets very close not contiguous; frons-vertex junction not defined, this area rounded. Mouthparts well developed, probably functional; apical segment of labial palpi ovoid, longer than wide. Antennal length subequal to GHW or slightly less; 11 segmented. Abdomen (Figs 178, 179): LO in V6 and V7 restricted to small anterolateral plaques occupying less than half area of each ventrite. MPP short, narrow, apically acute; posterolateral corners short, slightly angulate, horizontal (appear to project slightly posteriorly in pinned specimens, after soaking in water or ethanol are round, not projecting). Tergites: T8 (Figs 178, 179) as wide as long; posterior half as wide as anterior half, projecting for about half its width beyond posterior margin of V7; posterior margin of T8 bisinuate; anterior prolongations of T8 not developed. Aedeagal sheath (Figs 181–183): posterior margin of sternite rounded, with short rounded medial projection (arrow in Figs 182, 183). Aedeagus (Figs 35, 184–185): L/ W 2.5/1, LL/ML 2.2; LL diverge along their length and are widely separated at their rounded apices; LL slightly shorter than ML, apices rounded, out-turned and narrower than apex and base of ML; base of LL produced anteriorly and broadly rounded (appears slightly asymmetrical, interpreted here as symmetrical); ML broad, apically rounded. <b>Female and larva</b>. Unknown. <b>Remarks.</b> Olivier (1911) described the median dark mark wider along the anterior margin than posterior, a distinction not now obvious on the type. Olivier also described the brown elytra as finely pale margined laterally; he keyed <i>scabra</i> using '‘elytra black'’. The margins on the type do not appear paler than the rest.
description: Published as part of <i>Ballantyne, Lesley A. &amp; Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997</i> on pages 51-52
description: {"references": ["Olivier, E. (1911) Le genre Atyphella Oll. et descriptions d'especes nouvelles (Col. Lampyridae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 8, 171 - 175.", "McDermott, F. A. (1966) Lampyridae Pars. 9. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling) (Ed. Sec), 1 - 149 (Luciolini, 98 - 118)."]}