A Phylogenetic Reassessment Of The Rare S. E. Asian Firefly Genus Pygoluciola Wittmer (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae)
Author
Lambkin, L. A. Ballantyne C.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2006
2006-02-28
54
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21
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13245290
2345-7600
13245290
Pygoluciola kinabalua
(Ballantyne)
(
Figs. 3, 7
,
38-40
)
Luciola (Pygoluciola) kinabalua
Ballantyne &
Lambkin, 2001: 371
[
Holotype
male
Malaysia
,
Sabah
:
Mt Kinabalu
(BMNH)].
Diagnosis. –
Males elongate slender (
Figs. 3, 7
), about three times as long as wide, with elytra subparallel sided; one of two species of
Pygoluciola
with the apex of the MPP of V7 emarginate, gently so in this species; distinguished from
P. wittmeri
, which has a deeply emarginate apex; female with posterior margin of V7 deeply and broadly emarginate, with a small transverse ridge just anterior to this emargination, lateral projections moderately broad and apically rounded; tergite 7 with strongly sclerotised median ‘mound’; lateral margins of anterior prolongation of V8 not well sclerotised nor well defined.