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 flammulans
Ballantyne, 2000
Atyphella flammulans
Ballantyne
in
Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:38
, 2001:364, 2006:30.
Holotype
.
Male.
AUSTRALIA
:
17.56 S
,
145.56 E
,
Boulder Creek
via
Tully
(QMT 61110).
Diagnosis.
One of the six Australian species with striped elytra, most similar to
A. flammans
, distinguished by the acute frons-vertex junction, the smaller size (<
9 mm
long) and the presence of two well–defined interstitial lines. Female, larva not associated.