The external larval morphology of aquatic and terrestrial Luciolinae fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
Author
Fu, Xinhua
Author
Ballantyne, Lesley
Author
Lambkin, Christine
text
Zootaxa
2012
3405
1
34
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.211302
d849f41f-5ac9-4f89-83dc-aad867ff8719
1175-5326
211302
Aquatica ficta
(Olivier)
Figs 1–12, 67, 73, 74
Luciola ficta
Olivier, 1909c
:249
.
Pic, 1911
:188
.
McDermott, 1966
:104
.
Ho & Jiang, 1997
:42
.
Yeh, 1999
:1
.
Jeng
et al.
2003
:545
.
Ho, 2002
:48
.
Chen, 2003
:163
.
Ho
et al
, 2009
:100
.
Luciola ovalis
Hope.
Matsumura 1918
:84
misidentification.
Chang 1994
:1
misidentification.
Aquatica ficta
(Olivier)
.
Fu
et al
. 2010
:6
.
Material examined.
CHINA
: 20 sixth instars bred from an original population of five males and three females collected from Fuqing County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province,
May 15, 2008
(NHMHAU).
Diagnosis
. Protergum having rounded sides; with four pale spots at anterolateral and posterolateral corners; remaining terga lacking pale markings; thoracic and abdominal terga not widely separated, median line narrow; abdominal terga 1–8 with plates obliquely emarginate in anterolateral corners (Figs 73–74); abdominal glands with 3–7 spines (
Figs 7–12
); antennal segment 3 with closely adpressed finger like projections subequal in length to adjacent sense cone (Figs 1–4); mandibles lacking retinaculum (
Fig. 67
); palpi with terminal sense organs (Figs 5, 6).