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 lewisi
Ballantyne, 2000
(
Fig. 130
)
Atyphella lewisi
Ballantyne
in
Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 41
, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.
Holotype
.
Male.
AUSTRALIA
:
Mt Lewis Road
, via
Julatten
(
ANIC
).
Diagnosis
. One of the six Australian species with striped elytra; small (<
6 mm
long); similar to
A. brevis
and
A. ellioti
, distinguished by its size, convex frons-vertex junction, 2 interstitial lines and the apparently bipartite LO in V7; probable female brachelytral, hind wings absent, elytra do not approach in mid-line. Larva not associated.