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Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne 2000

Description

Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne, 2000

(Fig. 130)

Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne in Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 41, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.

Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Mt Lewis Road, via Julatten (ANIC).

Diagnosis. One of the six Australian species with striped elytra; small (<6 mm long); similar to A. brevis and A. ellioti, distinguished by its size, convex frons-vertex junction, 2 interstitial lines and the apparently bipartite LO in V7; probable female brachelytral, hind wings absent, elytra do not approach in mid-line. Larva not associated.

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 49

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ANIC
Scientific name authorship
Ballantyne
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Lampyridae
Genus
Atyphella
Species
lewisi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Atyphella lewisi Ballantyne, 2000 sec. Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2009

References

  • Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. (2000) Lampyridae of Australia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46 (1), 15 - 93.