Trisinuata similispapuae 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
Trisinuata
Trisinuata similispapuae

description: <i>Trisinuata similispapuae</i> (Ballantyne) comb. nov. [Figs 259–265] <i>Pteroptyx similispapuae</i> Ballantyne, in Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970:261; Ballantyne 1987a:159. <b>Holotype.</b> Male. <b>INDONESIA</b> West Irian: 135.31E, 3.23S, Nabire, South Geelvink Bay, 0–30m, vii.2–9.1962, light trap (BPBM). <b>Specimens examined</b>. <b>NEW</b> <b>GUINEA</b>: Western Highlands 5.32S 144.08E Baiyer River, tube bears label ‘MP (mating pair) *2 8.15 male yellow female Gr. 11.xi.69 light male 2 nd BR 2; no collector (see Ballantyne 1987a:160) (ANIC). <b>Diagnosis.</b> This mating pair was characterised (Ballantyne 1987a p. 159). Males small (5–6 mm long); dorsally entirely brown with small median orange spots on the pronotum, or median area of pronotum entirely dingy orange; very similar to <i>Tri. papuae,</i> distinguished by the outline of the terminal abdomen (Fig. 259, 260), and the asymmetrical flanges on T8 (Fig. 261); short paired cuticular strips extend anteriorly across the dorsal face of V7 from the sides of the MPP (Fig. 260). Female coloured as for male except for pale LO in V6 only. <b>Female.</b> 5.6 mm long. Colour: as for male except for yellowish brown ventral surface of metathorax, pale LO in V6 only, not reaching to brown lateral margins, light brown basal abdominal tergites and darker brown T7, 8. V7 posterior margin gently bisinuate, median area narrowly indented, and posterolateral corners rounded (Fig. 263). Bursa: with broad paired plates (Fig. 265). <b>Remarks.</b> This species was described from two specimens which differed from the similarly coloured <i>Pteroptyx papuae</i> in the outlines of the terminal abdominal ventrite (Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970). Ballantyne (1987a) described two further specimens (a mating pair) and the light colour (male yellow, female green), but had difficulty in determining if the LO in V7 was bipartite. A reexamination here including the presence of cuticular strands (Fig. 260) to which muscles attach in the median area of V7 indicates a bipartite LO in V7. Ballantyne (1987a:160) described the aedeagal sheath split by a mating "plug" (spermatophore) retained as a very hard ball attached to the ejaculatory orifice (Fig. 264).
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 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
description: {"references": ["Ballantyne, L. A. &amp; McLean, M. R. (1970) Revisional studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 96, 223 - 305.", "Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 a) Further Revisional Studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 117 - 170."]}