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Luciola auritula Olivier 1910

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
  • 2. Microbes, Parasites, and Biodiversity Initiative, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • 3. Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, India.
  • 4. Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Description

Luciola auritula Olivier, 1910

Luciola auritula Olivier, 1910c: 533

Distribution: India (Ghosh et al. 2023a: 26). Also Sri Lanka (McDermott 1966: 99).

Remarks: Luciola sensu lato in Ballantyne et al. (2019).

Notes

Published as part of Chakravarthy, Akshay Kumar, Keller, Oliver, Gupta, Devanshu & Das, Amlan, 2026, A checklist of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from India, pp. 229-249 in Zootaxa 5768 (2) on page 235, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5768.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/19178507

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Lampyridae
Genus
Luciola
Species
auritula
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Luciola auritula Olivier, 1910 sec. Chakravarthy, Keller, Gupta & Das, 2026

References

  • Olivier, E. (1910 c) Descriptions of two new species of Luciola in the collection of Mr. H. E. Andrewes. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1910, 532-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1910.tb01183.x
  • Ghosh, S., Sarkar, S. K. & Chakraborty, S. K. (2023 a) New distributional records of fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae) from two eastern states of India with notes on their biology and an updated Indian checklist. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11, e 98948. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e98948
  • McDermott, F. A. (1966) Lampyridae. In: Steel, W. O. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Pars. 9. Editio Secunda. W. Junk, S'Gravenhage, pp. 1-149.
  • Ballantyne, L. A., Lambkin, C. L., Ho, J. Z., Jusoh, W. F. A., Nada, B., Nak-Eiam, S., Thancharoen, A., Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W. & Yiu, V. (2019) The Luciolinae of SE Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species. Zootaxa, 4687 (1), 1-174. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1