Aquatica hydrophila Jeng et al.

Aquatica hydrophila (Jeng et al.)

Fig. 16

Luciola hydrophila Jeng et al. 2003:544.

Type. Male. CHINA; Taiwan, Wulai (National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan). Not examined by these authors.

Specimen examined. CHINA: Taiwan, Yanminshan, 30.iv.1996, N. Ohba, male (ANIC). Taibei County, Wulai village, 20 April. 2008, Jiaxiong Wu, male and female (Fu collection).

Diagnosis. One of three species of Aquatica with dark brown elytra; most similar to A. wuhana sp. n., distinguished from both A. lateralis and A. wuhana sp. n. by the pale pronotum (Fig. 16) (both of these species have median dark pronotal colouring); aedeagus with LL not inturned, not hooked, and lacking teeth along inner basal margins; ML with basal half or more bulbous, slender in apical area, aedeagal sheath with sternite apically entire; not strongly bent to right in posterior half; sheath sternite about as wide in posterior half as anterior half; females macropterous and coloured as for males. Jeng et al. (2003:545) indicated ‘larvae usually live in ditches or small creeks with shallow and clear water, fast current and cobble benthos’.