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
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188
journal article
11755334
Atyphella lychnus
Olliff, 1890
(
Figs 11
,
78, 79
)
Atyphella lychnus
Olliff, 1890:647
, 1297
(female).
Olivier, 1910b:47
;
1911:172
.
Lea, 1909:111
;
1921c:7
.
Tillyard, 1926:213
. Ballantyne in
Calder, 1998: 177
(comb. rev.).
Ballantyne &Lambkin, 2000: 43
, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.
Nec
Lea, 1929:345
.
Luciola (Luciola) lychnus
(Olliff)
.
McDermott, 1966:109
.
Moore, 1989:136
, Fig. 188.
Lawrence and Britton, 1991
:
Fig. 35.38
, C & D (adult).
Luciola (Atyphella) lychnus
(Olliff)
.
Moore, 1989:136
.
Lectotype
. Male.
AUSTRALIA
:
Mt Wilson
, designated by
Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000
(
AMS
).
Diagnosis
. One of the six Australian species with striped elytra; 4 interstitial lines. Female with fully developed elytra and shortened hind wings.
Ballantyne and Lambkin, 2000: 43
characterised the distinctively coloured larva.