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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Trisinuata papuae
(McDermott)
Pteroptyx papuae
McDermott, 1959:9
;
McDermott, 1966:117
.
Ballantyne & McLean, 1970:252
.
Holotype
.
Male.
NEW
GUINEA
:
148.23E
,
8.37S
,
Monda
,
Buna District
, xii.28.1943 (Cornell University).
Other specimens examined. NEW
GUINEA
:
147.10E
,
7.53S
,
Garaina
,
800m
,
16.i.1968
, J. &
M. S.
, male (
BPBM
)
.
147.44E
,
8.52S
, Kokoda,
400m
, iii.22.1956, JLG,
2 males
(
BPBM
)
.
148.10E
,
8.55S
,
Mt Lamington District
, C. T
. McNamara,
v.1927
2 males
, female;
vii.1927
, male, female;
viii.1927
, female;
i–ii.1929
, female (
AMSA
)
.
Diagnosis.
Small (
4.4–4.6 mm
long); entirely brown dorsally except for 4 median orange spots on the pronotum; deflexed elytral apex somewhat truncate along margin B with margin C slightly sinuate; distinguished most obviously from
Tri. papuana
by the presence of the deflexed elytral apex.
Remarks.
This study extends the number of males known in collections.
Luciola papuana
Olivier
was described from a female coloured like
M. papuae
.
Males lacking the deflexed elytral apex are associated with
Luciola papuana
and the species assigned to
Trisinuata
gen. nov.
and redescribed below.
Table 9
lists
Luciolinae
sharing similar pale brown dorsal colouration, of which three species, including this one, are assigned to
Trisinuata
gen. nov.