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Ethra axillaris Motschulsky 1854

Description

E. axillaris Motschulsky, 1854 (Figure 3 L)

Differential diagnosis. Overall black to brown, except for two longitudinal pale yellow stripes along the outer margin of the elytron; flabellum of antennomere III projecting apically; anterior margin of the pronotum acute, lateral margins straight and narrower than humeral width. An orangish vitta is sometimes present at the pronotum.

Notes

Published as part of Silveira, Luiz F L, Khattar, Gabriel, Vaz, Stephanie, Wilson, Vinicius A., Souto, Paula M., Mermudes, José R. M., Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F., Macedo, Margarete V. & Monteiro, Ricardo F., 2020, Natural history of the fireflies of the Serra dos Órgãos mountain range (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro) - one of the ' hottest' firefly spots on Earth, with a key to genera (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 275-308 in Journal of Natural History 54 (5 - 6) on page 293, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1749323, http://zenodo.org/record/5021064

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