Australoluciola aspera 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
Australoluciola
Australoluciola aspera

description: <i>Australoluciola aspera</i> (Olivier) comb. nov. [Figs 18–25] <i>Luciola aspera</i> Olivier, 1910a:344; 1913b:417; in Heyden, 1915:177. <i>Luciola (Luciola) aspera</i> Olivier. McDermott, 1966:99. <b>Holotype.</b> Female. <b>NEW GUINEA.</b> (Musée Senkenberg à Frankfort sur le main; (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum). <b>Other material examined. NEW</b> <b>GUINEA</b>: 3.30 S, 143.34E, East Sepik Province: Amok, 165 m, 6.i.1960, T. Maa, male (BPBM). 3.35 S, 143.35E, Wewak, 2–20 m, 11.x.1957, JLG, female (BPBM); Wewak F H Taylor, no date, male (NHML). <b>Diagnosis.</b> The only species of <i>Australoluciola</i> with a wide dark median band on the orange pronotum; elytra dark brown; male V7 trisinuate. <b>Male.</b> 5.7 mm long. Colour (Figs 19, 20, 25): pronotum orange with a median brown band (Figs 19, 25); MN orange, MS dark brown; elytra medium brown, lateral margin narrowly pale in anterior 1/3; ventral surface brown except for orange underside of pronotum, orange prosternum, pale yellow posterior half of V5, and creamy white V6, 7; legs brown except for pale coxae, trochanters and basal half of femora; basal tergites brown, T6, 7, 8 pale orange, semitransparent; dorsally reflexed margins of V6 and 7 white. Pronotum (Fig. 25): 1.3 mm long; 1.8 mm wide; W/L=1.4; dorsal surface irregular, with ridges and depressed areas; midanterior margin broadly rounded and projecting only a little in front of angulate anterolateral corners; lateral margins diverging posteriorly, C&gt;A, B; posterolateral corners angulate; punctures broad, shallow, most contiguous. Elytra: 4.4 mm long; punctures minute, sublinear in parts of elytra over short distances. Abdomen (Figs 20, 21): V3 strongly, V4 very weakly recurved; anterior margin of V4 projecting into the posterior area of V3; posterior margin of V7 trisinuate; LOs occupying most of V7 and reaching sides but not posterior margin; MPP apically rounded, short; as wide as and slightly longer than PLP (Fig. 21). T8: Ventral surface with well developed lateral ridges and short, wide, apically rounded flanges; anterolateral prolongations of T8 wide, not as long as posterior entire portion. Aedeagus (Figs 22–24): short wide anterior prolongation of ML (view from beneath); lateral margins of LL curved, and expanded along apical 2/5 and visible beside ML; apices of LL slightly obliquely truncate; L/W 2.9. <b>Female</b> (Type female Fig. 18). Macropterous. Genitalia and internal reproductive system not investigated. <b>Larva</b>. Not associated. <b>Remarks.</b> Association of males is made on the basis of the similarity of pronotal colour to that of the type female. Olivier’s collection in MNHN has a small water colour of this species showing the dark pronotal markings as two dark patches along the posterior area only (Ballantyne examination 2002).
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 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340
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