The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species
Author
Ho, - Z.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-18
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journal article
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Triangulara
Pimpasalee 2016
Figs 17, 18
Triangulara
Pimpasalee
2016 in
Ballantyne
et al.
2016: 238
.
Type
species.
Triangulara frontoflava
Pimpasalee
by monotypy
Diagnosis
.
Triangulara
belongs to that group of S. E. Asian
Luciolinae
having pale yellowish dorsal surface (including a pale pronotum), with black tipped elytral apices. In the male the aedeagal LL are visible beside the ML when viewed from beneath in common with 17 other genera. Males are most obviously distinguished by the triangular outline of the LO in
V7
and the separation of the LO from the sides and posterior margin of
V7
; it is most similar to
Sclerotia
Ballantyne
from which it is distinguished by the triangular outline of the LO in
V7
, no anteromedian emargination of the
V7
LO, and no sclerites surrounding the aedeagal sheath. (In
Sclerotia
the LO may occupy all of
V7
, or may appear heart shaped, with an anterior median emargination often so deep that the LO appears U shaped; a set of 3 sclerites surround the posterior area of the aedeagal sheath). It is distinguished from the similarly coloured
Abscondita
Ballantyne
most obviously by the triangular shape of both the LO and
V7
, the separation of the aedeagal LL along most of their dorsal length and the absence of bulbous projections from the lateral margins of the LL. (In
Abscondita
the LO in
V7
occupies most if not all the area of
V7
which is broadly rounded behind and often very flat; the LL are fused along almost all of their dorsal length, and bulbous projections arise from the lateral margins of the LL). Confused in collections with
Scl. aquatilis
and
Scl. substriata
. Female macropterous and coloured as for male except for pale terminal Vs 6 and 7. Larva unknown but preliminary observations by Pimpasalee indicate it may be aquatic.
FIGURES 463−473.
Serratia sibuyania
gen.
et
sp. nov.
463 holotype (USNM); 464 Romblon (USNM); 465−468, 470−473 Luzon H.S.B. (USNM); 469 Macassar (USNM). 463, 464, 465 habitus dorsal; 466, 468 habitus ventral (468 after removal of abdomen); 467 dorsal head. Pronotum and anterior part of elytra; 470 tergite 8 ventral; 471−473 abdomen: 471 intact, ventral; dissected, ventral; 473 dorsal.
Fu (2014: 41)
illustrated a
Triangulara
sp. as
Luciola
sp.