Medeopteryx cribellata 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
Medeopteryx
Medeopteryx cribellata

description: <i>Medeopteryx cribellata</i> (Olivier) comb. nov. [Figs 143, 156, 163] <i>Luciola cribellata</i> Olivier, 1892:1010. <i>Pteroptyx cribellata</i> Olivier, 1909a:319. McDermott, 1966:117 (<b>partim</b>). Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970:242 (<b>partim</b>). Lloyd, 1973b:268; 1973a:991; 1979:25. Ballantyne, 1987a: 133. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:180. <b>Nec</b> Hanson <i>et al.,</i> 1971:161; Hanson, 1978:2158; Haneda, 1966:4; Buck <i>et al.</i> 1981a:277, 1981b:287. <i>Pteroptyx cribellatum</i> Olivier, 1910b:47; 1913b:417. Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970: 242 (synonymy). <i>Pteroptyx cribratellum</i> Pic, 1932:88. Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970:243 (synonymy). Ballantyne in Calder 1998:180. <b>Nec</b> <i>Luciola platygaster</i> Lea. Olivier, 1913b:417 (synonymy). Ballantyne &amp; McLean, 1970: 243. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:180. <b>Lectotype</b>. Male. <b>NEW GUINEA</b>: 9.43S, 147.45E Central Province, Ighibirei, lectotype male of <i>Luciola cribellata</i>, designated by Ballantyne (1987a) (MCSN). <b>Other specimens examined.</b> Unless otherwise indicated, specimens were collected by J., J. H., and M. Sedlacek, and are in BPBM. Listings extend Ballantyne (1987a). <b>NEW GUINEA</b>: 145.04E, 6.37S, Chimbu Pr., Karimui: 4.vi.1961, light trap, male, J. &amp; M. Gressitt; 1080m, 14–15.vii.1963, male. 146.35E, 7.13S, Morobe Pr., Bulolo: 700m, 26.xi.1969, 4 males; 6.xi.1969, male; 900m, 6.xi. 1969, male; Bulolo, Vatut: 700–800m, 1– 7.vi.1969, male; Bulolo River: 680m, 27.iii.1969, male; 700m, 26.xi.1969, male; 800–900m, 31.viii.1965, male; 850–900m, 24.viii. 1965, 2 males. 146.40E, 7.22S, Morobe Pr., Wau, Kujera: 1300m, 27.vi.1969, male, A. Mirza. Wau, Morobe District: 880–1050m, 8–9.ii.1963, male; 1050m, 11.xi.1961, male, 5.i.1961, male; 1100m, 29.viii.1961, male, 26.x.1961, 2 males; 1150–1600m, 9.xi.1968, male; 1200m: 27.i.1966, male; 13.viii.1961, light trap, male; 14.vii.1961, light trap, male; 5–13.iii.1964, M–V light trap, male, 8.v.1967, on <i>Amaranth</i>, no collector, male; 12–1300m, 22.x.1965, male; 1300m, 14.viii.1961, male; Oct 19, 1969, J. E. Lloyd (G381) male, female. Wau, Morobe District, Mt Missim: 880–1050m, 8–9.ii.1963, 4 males; 900m, 22.ii.1965, 2 males. 147.44E, 8.52S, Kokoda, 380m, iii.20.1956, light trap, 2 males, JLG; 28–29.iii.1956, light trap, 2 males, JLG; 400m, 17– 18.xi.1965, male. Madang District, Kar Kar Island, ' Mt H. I. Tree' 28.XI.1973, E. Ball Tube 21, 16 males 18 females (10 dissected) (ANIC). <b>AUSTRALIA</b>, Queensland: Cape York Peninsula: Dividing Range, 15 km west King Billy Creek, 5–12. ii. 1976, G. B. Monteith, 3 males (synchronous flashing). (QMBA). 143.17E, 12.44S, Iron Range, Gordon's Creek, 8.viii.1983, B. Gillies, male (MUMA). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Orange pronotum, dark brown elytra, rounded elytral apices (Fig. 143), dimple on V7 (Fig. 143 arrowed); distinguished from other similarly coloured species by the dimensions of the deflexed elytral apex (A, B, C are subequal) and the deep dimple on V7 (Ballantyne 1987a Fig. 7). <b>Female</b> (Figs 156, 163) (Kar Kar Island specimens). 6.5–7.2 mm long. Colour: as for male except for dusky brown MS appearing slightly darker in posterior half (probably because of underlying mesothorax), pale LO in V6, and moderately dark brown V7, 8 and T7, 8 (V7 may bear irregular whitish patches along its anterior margin and the posterolateral corners of V7 may be darker brown than rest. Abdomen (Fig. 156): posterior margin of V6 not excavated, posterolateral corners rounded; posterior margin of V7 broadly, deeply and evenly excavated, with posterolateral corners acutely angled and pointed; V8 not indented in median line. Bursa plates (Fig. 163). <b>Remarks.</b> The type locality of Ighibirei is in Central province on the Kemp Welch river (Helgen <i>et al.</i> 2008). In the absence of knowledge of this locality specimens were assigned to this species (see Ballantyne and McLean 1970; Ballantyne 1987a). Any reassessment of such specimens can only be made on morphological grounds. In the absence of any flashing data, Ballantyne and McLean (1970) assigned a range of morphologically variable specimens to <i>Pteroptyx cribellata.</i> In 1970 LB had provided Lloyd with tentative determinations, and his species "P. 17" was thus identified in Lloyd (1973a) as <i>Pteroptyx cribellata.</i> Ballantyne (1987a) described a lectotype and considered that only two of Lloyd's (1973a) species, viz. species 17 and 20, conformed closely to <i>cribellata.</i> The flashing patterns of these two species are very similar. LB eliminated the possibility of Lloyd's species P. 17 with its highland distribution, being <i>cribellata</i> (Ballantyne, 1987a). Of the broad assemblage of specimens tentatively assigned to <i>cribellata</i> by Ballantyne and McLean (1970), and reassigned by Ballantyne (1987a), only specimens with lowland distribution were considered as possible <i>cribellata.</i> Haneda (1966), Hanson (1978), and Hanson <i>et al.</i> (1971) refer to <i>Pteroptyx cribellata</i> from New Britain; the species is <i>Medeopteryx effulgens</i> (Ballantyne 1987a). Buck (1988:268) was not sympathetic to the need for such taxonomic changes, despite having heralded the possibility (Buck <i>et al.,</i> 1981a:278). Olivier (1913b) synonymised <i>Luciola platygaster</i> Lea with <i>Pteroptyx cribellata</i> (Olivier). Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000) assigned <i>platygaster</i> to <i>Pteroptyx</i>. Specimens listed here extend the range of <i>cribellata</i> and are tentatively assigned as no definitive information on light production is available.
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 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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