Aquatica lateralis (Motsch.)

Figs 8–16

Luciola lateralis Motschulsky, 1860:144. Olivier 1902a:82; 1907;53. McDermott, 1966:108. Ohba, 1986:6; 1988:12. Jeng et al. 2003:546. Suzuki et al., 2004:287.

Luciola viticollis Kiesenwetter 1874:261. Gorham, 1883:409. Olivier, 1902a:77; 1902b:189. Okada, 1931:146. McDermott, 1966:102.

Type. RUSSIA: Dahourie. Sex not determined. Not examined by Jeng et al. 2003 or these authors.

Specimens examined. JAPAN: Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Pref., 20.vi.1982, N. Ohba male (ANIC). Matsuyama City, Ehinc Pref., 8.vii.1996, N. Ohba male (ANIC). Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami- Ohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo. 2008. 28 May 2008, Hayashi (Fu collection).

Diagnosis. Luciola lateralis was originally recorded from Russia and Japan (McDermott 1966). Ohba and Suzuki (pers. comm.) have later found it in South Korea but as yet there are no substantiated records from mainland China. We follow Jeng et al.’s (2003) interpretation of lateralis from Japan in the absence of type material. Males with reddish pink or yellowish pronotum having a median dark brown band extending from anterior to posterior margin (Fig. 8, 15); elytra very dark brown; aedeagus (Figs 10–12) with LL apices inturned and broadly hooked; inner margins of lateral lobes in basal third toothed (arrowed in Fig. 10); aedeagal sheath (Figs 13, 14) with both sides of sternite strongly emarginated posterior to tergite articulations, and much narrower than anterior portion of sheath; lateral teeth of posterior margin of sheath as described for leii and wuhana sp. n., and sheath apex shallowly medially emarginate; females macropterous coloured as for males. Larvae are found in rice paddies (Jeng et al. 2003) and males can copulate with a Taiwanese firefly that may be ficta (Ohba 1983, 1986, 1990).