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
1
188
journal article
11755334
Atyphella atra
Lea, 1921
(
Figs 9, 10
,
83–85
)
Atyphella atra
Lea, 1921a:198
. Ballantyne
in
Calder 1998: 177
(comb. rev.)
Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 25
; 2001: 374, 2006: 30.
Luciola (Luciola) atra
(Lea)
.
McDermott, 1966: 99
.
Luciola (Atyphella) atra
(Lea)
.
Ballantyne & McLean, 1970: 281
.
Moore, 1989: 136
.
Holotype
.
Male.
AUSTRALIA
:
28.19S
,
153.05E
,
Lamington National Park
(C2290
QM
).
Diagnosis.
Males distinguished from most other
Atyphella
by the acute frons-vertex junction, the small (probably non–functional) mouthparts, the contiguous antennal sockets, the brown – dark brown parallelsided elytra; females pale coloured with fully developed elytra and vestigial hind wings; paler male specimens very like
A. similis
, which has angulate posterolateral pronotal corners, separated antennal sockets, well developed mouthparts and flightless brachelytral females.
Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000)
distinguished
atra
and
similis
most obviously by their distinctive females.