Medeopteryx pupilla Ballantyne &amp; Lambkin 2013
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Medeopteryx
Medeopteryx pupilla

description: <i>Medeopteryx pupilla</i> (Olivier) [Figs 168–176] <i>Luciola pupilla</i> Olivier, 1892:1011; 1902:72. <i>Pteroptyx pupilla</i> (Olivier). McDermott, 1966:117. <i>Luciola (Luciola) pupilla</i> Olivier. Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970:237, 268. Nec Ballantyne, 1987a:164, 165, 167; Ballantyne, 1987b:177, 178, 185. <b>Lectotype</b>. Male designated here. <b>NEW GUINEA</b>: 9.43S 147.45E Central Pr., Ighibirei (MCSN). <b>Other Specimens examined. NEW</b> <b>GUINEA</b>: 5.14S, 145.45E, Madang Dist., Sek Harbor, 10 mi n Madang, Oct. 5, 1969, J.E. Lloyd, 2 males (G148, 141). (JELC). Mt Lamington District Northern Division, C. McNamara 6 males (1 male v.1927) (AMSA). <b>Diagnosis.</b> One of two <i>Medeopteryx</i> with trisinuate V7 but without deflexed elytral apices; distinguished most from <i>M. similispupillae</i> by the pale terminal abdominal tergites (Fig. 170) and the broader ML (that of <i>similispupillae</i> is very narrow; Fig. 182). <b>Male.</b> 5.3 (lectotype)– 7.7 mm long. Colour (Fig. 168): pronotum dingy orange (finely dark margined in G141); MS dingy orange, marked in brown in anterior half; MN cream; elytra uniformly very dark brown, reddish brown with narrowly pale margins in one Mt Lamington male; head between eyes, antennae and palpi almost black (head of G148 appearing paler brown as semitransparent cuticle reveals underlying fat body); entire ventral surface of thorax, all of legs 1–3 dark brown (coxae and base of femora of legs 1, 2 orange in one Mt Lamington male); basal abdominal ventrites dark brown; V5–7 dirty white (1/4 to ½ of posterior area of V5 pale in Mt Lamington males; T2–6 yellow (lectotype), brownish in Mt Lamington males, semitransparent, T7–8 white, semitransparent. Pronotum: 1.3 (lectotype)– 2.2 mm wide, 1.0 (lectotype)– 1.4 mm long, W/L = 1.4–1.7; punctures shallow, contiguous across anterior and lateral margins, separated by up to their width over central area of disc; midanterior margin broadly rounded, moderately projecting beyond rounded anterolateral corners, with lateral margins subparallel, converging slightly in anterior and posterior third in lectotype; lateral margins divergent slightly posteriorly, with anterolateral and posterolateral corners angulate in Mt Lamington males. Head: GHW 1.1(lectotype)– 1.8 mm, SIW 0.2 mm; ASD slightly &lt;ASW. FS elongate, slender, subequal. Abdomen (Figs 169, 170, 175, 176): LOs occupying all of V6 and 7 except for narrow posterior margin of 7; MPP moderately broad, longer than wide, apically truncate (lectotype) or slightly emarginated, longer and wider than PLP, T8 with broad short rounded flanges in lectotype; flanges about as long as wide and apically truncate in Mt Lamington males (Fig. 175). Aedeagus: (Figs 171–173) ML expanded, and may appear concave in posterior half, 0.7 as wide as LL across narrowest portion of ML; LL inturned at inner apex. <b>Remarks.</b> Confusion in the literature over the identity of <i>Luciola pupilla</i> is resolved by designation of a lectotype (first in a syntype series). McDermott (1966) incorrectly assigned <i>pupilla</i> to <i>Pteroptyx.</i> LB tentatively identified Lloyd's (1973a) <i>Luciola</i> species 11 as <i>Luciola pupilla</i> and abdominal modifications were described (Ballantyne, 1987a, b). This study has revealed two species with similar V7, viz. <i>M. pupilla</i> and <i>M. similispupillae</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> It is now possible to determine an approximate location for "Ighibirei" which is also the type locality of <i>Medeopteryx cribellata</i> (Olivier). Helgen <i>et al.</i> (2008) referred to Loria’s collecting locality as either “on the Kemp Welch river some little way inland “or “ just inland from the mouth of the Wanigela River”. The elevation is unknown. Lloyd's field records for specimen G148 read "slow double pulse signal, one second interval".
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 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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