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Luciola ruficollis

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Luciola ruficollis (Boisduval)

Lampyris ruficollis Boisduval, 1835:128. Guérin-Méneville, 1838:75. Motschulsky, 1854: 53.

Luciola ruficollis (Guérin-Méneville). Lacordaire, 1857: 338. Olivier, 1902:85; 1907:54; 1910b:45. Nec Girard, 1873, plate xxxv, figs 9, 9a, 9b.

Luciola (Luciola) ruficollis (Guérin-Méneville). McDermott, 1966:112. Ballantyne, 1987a:131.

Type. NEW GUINEA. not located.

Remarks. This species has not been reliably identified in collections. Based on its original description as a small species (ca 6 mm long) with orange pronotum, dark brown elytra, and V7 trilobed Ballantyne (1987a:131) considered that Pteroptyx antennata Olivier could have been based on similar specimens. No reference to ruficollis mentions deflexed elytral apices in the male. The described ventral colouration of yellowish thorax and abdomen is approached by Australoluciola australis which lacks a trisinuate V7.

This species has been attributed to Guérin-Méneville (1830). The actual publication date of this work was 1838, and the species is here attributed to Boisduval (1835) as the first description to be associated with the name.

Notes

Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2013, Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera, pp. 1-162 in Zootaxa 3653 (1) on page 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3653.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265340

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Biodiversity

Family
Lampyridae
Genus
Luciola
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Boisduval
Species
ruficollis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Boisduval, J. B. A. D. (1835) Voyage de decouvertes de l' Astrolabe, execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont-D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'ocean Pacifique. Deuxieme partie. Coleopteres et autres ordres. Paris, 716 pp.
  • Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1838) Insectes. In: Lesson, M. (Ed.) Voyage autour du monde, execute par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de sa majeste, La Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825 etc. Zool. 2, Pt. 2, Div. 1, Ch. xiii. Bertrand: Paris, pp. 57 - 302.
  • 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. (1902) Catalogue des especes de ' Luciola' et genres voisins decrits jusqu'a ce jour. Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais et du centre de la France, 15, 69 - 88.
  • Olivier, E. (1907) Coleoptera, Lampyridae. Genera Insectorum, 53, 1 - 74 [Luciolinae, 48 - 56].
  • Olivier, E. (1910 b) Pars 9. Lampyridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling), (Luciolinae, 40 - 48).
  • Girard, M. (1873) Les Insectes. Traite elementaire d'entomologie. Introduction. Coleopteres. Tome 3. Paris.
  • McDermott, F. A. (1966) Lampyridae Pars. 9. Coleopterorum Catalogus (Junk-Schenkling) (Ed. Sec), 1 - 149 (Luciolini, 98 - 118).
  • Ballantyne, L. A. (1987 a) Further Revisional Studies on the firefly genus Pteroptyx Olivier (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 113, 117 - 170.