Asymmetricata circumdata Motsch.
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Asymmetricata circumdata (Motsch.)
Figs 49–54, 65–6, 72, 87, 88, 93
Luciola circumdata Motschulsky, 1854:50 (female). Lacordaire, 1857:338. Olivier, 1885:364 (Male, female); 1902a:84. Bourgeois, 1890:184. McDermott, 1964:44; 1966: 101. Ballantyne, 1987b:181, Fig. 1.
Asymmetricata circumdata (Motsch.) Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009:32.
Material examined. CHINA: Eight sixth instars bred from an original population of 4 males and 1 female collected from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Province, May 16, 2010 (NHMHAU).
Diagnosis. The only species of Asymmetricata with reliably associated larvae; distinguished by its laterally explanate tergal margins, short antennal sense cone and the largely yellow dorsal colouration, broken by a continuous wide median band of black running from the anterior area of thoracic tergum 2 to the posterior margin of terminal tergum (Figs 49–54, 87, 88). At least 58 expanded pygopodia arise from basal stalks which may branch more than once; recurved hooks surround the entire surface of the expanded pygopod (Fig. 93).
FIGURES 61–66. Larval pygopodia. 61–62 Aquatica leii (5th instar); 63–64 Pygoluciola qingyu (6th instar); 65–66 Asymmetricata circumdata (6th instar).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Motsch.
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Lampyridae
- Genus
- Asymmetricata
- Species
- circumdata
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Motschulsky, V. de (1854) Lampyrides. Etudes Entomologiques, III, 47 - 62.
- Lacordaire, T. (1857) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des Coleopteres. Tome Quatrieme. Roret Paris 579 pp.
- Olivier, E. (1885) Catalogue des Lampyrides faisant partie des collections du Musee Civique de Genes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, (2 a) 2, 333 - 374.
- Bourgeois, J. (1890) Contributions a la faune Indo-Chinoise. Rhipidoceridae, Dascillidae, Malacodermidae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 10 (6), 161 - 176.
- McDermott, F. A. (1964) The taxonomy of the Lampyridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 90, 1 - 72.
- Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 b) Lucioline Morphology, Taxonomy and Behaviour: A Reappraisal. (Coleoptera, Lampyridae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 171 - 188.
- Ballantyne, L. A. & Lambkin, C. (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). Zootaxa, 1997, 1 - 188.