Australoluciola fuscamagna 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 fuscamagna

description: <i>Australoluciola fuscamagna</i> sp. nov. [Figs 66–74] <b>Holotype.</b> Male. <b>NEW GUINEA</b>: 7.20S, 146.45E, Morobe Pr., 4 mi n Wau. elev. c 2800' nr Kunai Creek Lae Rd. 1969, J.E. Lloyd (G322) (ANIC). <b>Paratypes (4)</b>. All same locality as holotype; Oct. 17 male (G317); Nov. 12 male (G568) (JELC); Nov. 12 male (G579); Nov. 14 male (G608) (ANIC). <b>Code names.</b> <i>Luciola</i> 7, "Big Black" (Lloyd, 1973a). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Males dark brown (see Table 9) except for white posterior margin of V5, white LOs in V6, 7 and pale T6–8; distinguished from the similarly coloured <i>Aus. fuscaparva</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by its larger size and light patterns, and from <i>Tri. papuana</i> by the entire LO in V7. <b>Male.</b> 6.2–6.6 mm long. Colour (Figs 66, 67, 68, 71): entirely dark brown except for white posterior margin of V5 (Fig. 68), white LOs in V6 and 7, pale semitransparent T6–8, and white dorsally reflexed margins of V6 and 7; pronotum viewed under strong illumination is paler in convex areas and very dark brown in concave areas. Pronotum (Fig. 71): 0.8–1.2 mm long; 1.2–1.4 mm wide; W/L = 1.1–1.5; midanterior margin rounded, projecting moderately beyond angulate anterolateral corners; lateral margins subparallel-sided (A=B=C); punctures small, shallow, separated over most of the disc by twice their width. Elytra (Fig. 66): 5.4 mm long; shiny, punctures dense, many contiguous. Abdomen (Figs 67, 68): V3, V4 posterior margins not recurved; posterior margin of V7 trisinuate; LOs in V7 occupying most of the area and reaching to sides but not to posterior margin; MPP apically rounded, L=W; as wide as and slightly longer than PLP. T8: Ventral surface of T8 with well developed lateral ridges without flanges, anterior inner area of ridges rounded; anterolateral prolongations of T8 wide, not as long as posterior entire portion. Aedeagus (Figs 69, 70): anterior prolongation of ML short and wide; lateral margins of LL straight, converging posteriorly with apical ½ of lateral margins not visible beside ML; apices LL obliquely truncate and narrow; L/W=4.0. <b>Remarks.</b> The specific name <i>fuscamagna</i> emphasizes the dark dorsal colouration (Latin, fuscus = dark or black) and the size difference (magnus = big) between this and <i>fuscaparva (</i> <i>Luciola</i> species 8, "Little Black") to which it is most similar. Males "emitted a rapid, 1–sec flicker of 7–11 modulations each 3–4 sec" (Lloyd, 1973a). All listed species are characterised by recent taxonomic treatments except for <i>Luciola flebilis</i> and <i>L. picea</i> from Sumatra, both of which have entirely dark colouration except for the white V5–7, and may have been based on the same species.
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 pages 53-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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