Species Arachnocampa (Lucifera) buffaloensis Baker, 2010
- Arachnocampa (Lucifera) buffaloensis Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March] [28-29].
Type data:
Holotype MV ♀ (CB, collected as adult, killed and stored in 70% ethanol, BUFF#2), Australia, Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park, Underground River cave, glow-worm grotto, 13.iii.2000 [36°43’S, 151°17’E].
Paratype(s) MV 4 adult ♀♀ (CB/JF, collected as larva, reared to adult in incubator by CB, BUFF#1,3,4,5 Paratypes deposited in MV and QM), VICTORIA, Mount Buffalo National Park, Underground River cave, glow-worm grotto,13.i.2001 [36°43’S, 151°17’E]
Comment: Paratypes deposited in MV and QM.Type locality references:
Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March] [28-29].
Introduction
The name Arachnocampa (Lucifera) buffaloensis first published in Baker et al (2008) is unavailable. The taxonomic descriptions appearing in 'A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa) (Baker 2010) were intended to be published prior to a molecular phylogenetic study of Australian glow-worms (Baker et al. 2008). However, the molecular study was published before the descriptive paper (Baker 2010), and the scientific names of the new taxa described in Baker (2010) were inadvertently used in Baker et al. (2008). Baker et al. (2008) did not fix holotypes for the new species, so the species names used there are not available (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999, Article 16.4). In order to preserve the link with the taxa referred to in the molecular paper (Baker et al. 2008), the same names are used in Baker 2010 for the formal descriptions of the new subgenus and species
This species was nominated by the author and has since been listed as threatened under the Victorian Government’s Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 on the basis of its extremely restricted habitat of one cave.
Distribution
States
Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Vic: Australian Alps (AA)
Distribution References
- Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March]
Diagnosis
Adult body length 10-12 mm. Wing length 6.5-7 mm. m-cu close to r-m; bm-cu running parallel to r-m and 1-1.6 times length of m-cu. Fore basitarsus 1.55 times length of fore tibia. Laterotergite bare (1 seta on some paratypes). Larvae with row of 10 maxillary teeth plus lobe. Larval body colouration: head capsule sclerotised brown, body red, green, blue and white in order from anterior to posterior end. Pigmentation limited to anterior end.
Diagnosis References
Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March] [28]
General References
Baker, C.H., Graham, G.C., Scott, K.D., Yeates D.K. & Merritt, D.J. 2008. Distribution and phylogenetic relationships of Australian glow-worms Arachnocampa (Diptera, Keroplatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 506-514
Baker C.H. 2010. A new subgenus and five new species of Australian Glow-worms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Arachnocampa). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55: 11-41 [Date published 15 March]
History of changes
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| 31-Mar-2011 | ADDED |