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Aquilonia costata
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Aquilonia costata (Lea)
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Luciola costata Lea, 1921b:66.
Luciola (Luciola) costata Lea. McDermott, 1966:102. Calder, 1998:178.
Atyphella costata (Lea). Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:31.
Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 14.44S 131.08E, Flora River, IX.1912, Spencer (MV).
Material examined. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 14.30S, 132.15E, 3 km SSW Katherine, 12.XI.1979 T Weir, 2 males (ANIC).
Diagnosis. Males 7.7–9.7 mm long; the only reliably recorded Australian firefly with dorsal yellow/ orange colouration and black elytral apices. Luciola dejeani Gemminger has similar colouration but is probably not Australian and appears close to Luciola chinensis (Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:59). Larvae unknown.
Notes
Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, 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), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997 on page 30
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ANIC , MV
- Event date
- 1979-11-12
- Verbatim event date
- 1979-11-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Lea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Lampyridae
- Genus
- Aquilonia
- Species
- costata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aquilonia costata (Lea, 1921) sec. Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2009
References
- Lea, A. M. (1921 b) On Australian Coleoptera of the Family Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 45, 50 - 135 (Lampyridae, 65 - 68).
- McDermott, F. A. (1966) Lampyridae Pars. 9. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling) (Ed. Sec), 1 - 149 (Luciolini, 98 - 118).
- Calder, A. A. (1998) Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia 29.6. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).
- Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. (2000) Lampyridae of Australia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46 (1), 15 - 93.