Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)
Author
Ballantyne, Lesley A.
Author
Lambkin, Christine
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-02-04
1997
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188
journal article
11755334
Lloydiella uberia
sp. n.
(
Figs 204, 208, 210
,
215, 220, 224
)
Holotype
. Male.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
:
Chimbu
Pr.,
Uberie
,
29.ix.1966
,
R Carver
&
W Mackay
(
DAPM
).
Paratypes
(5).
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
:
Chimbu
Pr.,
Uberie
,
29.ix.1966
,
R Carver
&
W Mackay
, males (
DAPM
)
Diagnosis
. Distinguished by the rounded obtuse posterolateral corners of the pronotum, narrow MPP, dark metasternum and moderately broad posterior area of the aedeagal sheath sternite.
Male
. 10.0–
11.3 mm
long; 3.3–4.0 mm wide; W/L 0.3. Colour (
Figs 204, 208, 211
): Pronotum, MS and MN orange yellow (pronotum is semitransparent and fat body shows through cuticle in clumps); elytra very dark brown almost black; head, antennae and palpi dark brown; ventral aspect of pro and mesothorax yellowish, of metasternum and metepisternal plates dark brown, metepipleural plates yellow; all legs orange yellow except for dark brown apical 1/3 femora and all of tibiae and tarsi; abdominal V2–5 very dark brown as are tergites 2–6; LO creamy white; T 7, 8 pale orange. Pronotum (
Figs 204, 208, 210
) 2.0–
2.4 mm
long; 3.3–4.0 mm wide; W/L 1.6; lateral margins diverge posteriorly with rounded convergence; posterolateral corners rounded obtuse, projecting beyond median posterior margin. Elytron: 8.0–
8.9 mm
long; with 2 well–defined interstitial lines. Head: GHW 2.3–2.6; SIW 0.3; SIW/GHW 0.1. Apical segment of labial palpi with two teeth (one at apex and a slightly wider one at base). Abdomen, ventrites: MPP short narrow prominent, not inclined dorsally along its length. Tergites: T8 with lateral margins rounded; lacking median groove on ventral surface. Aedeagal sheath with sheath sternite moderately broad in posterior half (
Fig. 221
).
Etymology.
The specific name is considered a noun in apposition and reflects the
type
locality.