Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera
Author
Ballantyne, Lesley A.
lballantyne@csu.edu.au
Author
Lambkin, Christine L.
lballantyne@csu.edu.au
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-05-22
3653
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1
1175-5326
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Pacifica plagiata
(Blanchard)
comb. nov.
(
Ballantyne and Lambkin 2009
Figs 397–404)
Luciola plagiata
Blanchard, 1853:75
,
Fig. 15
, plate v.
Lacordaire, 1857:337
.
Olivier, 1902:85
.
Luciola caledonica
Bourgeois, 1884:285
.
Olivier, 1902:75
. Heller, in Sarasin and Roux, 1916:243.
Fauvel, 1904:139
. Synonymy.
Luciola (Luciola) caledonica
Bourgeois.
McDermott, 1966:100
. Synonymy.
Luciola
(
Luciola
)
plagiata
Blanchard.
McDermott, 1966: 111
. Synonymy.
Pygatyphella plagiata
(Blanchard)
.
Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 97
.
Types
.
Luciola caledonica
Bourgeois.
NEW CALEDONIA
:
Iles des Pins
, not found MNHN 2002 by LB
.
Luciola plagiata Blanchard.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
(
Ile
St.
George
). Location of
type
specimens unknown
.
Diagnosis.
Moderate sized (6.0–
7.4 mm
long); pronotum red yellow with an anterior median dark mark; elytra black; venter of body yellow; median posterior projection of V7 with rounded apex; T8 with ventrally directed flanges on long and vertically expanded anterior prolongations; MPP with dorsal ridge; T8 with short posteromedian ridge; ML of aedeagus with lateral teeth; aedeagal sheath with basal 1/3 of posterior area subparallel-sided.