Species Atyphella atra Lea, 1921

Museums

Regional Maps

• Atyphella atra Lea, A.M. 1921. On Coleoptera, mostly from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7(3): 182-240, pl. 13 [198].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM C2290 ♂, National Park, QLD [28.19S, 153.05E].
  Paratype(s) QM 5♂, National Park, QLD; SAMA I12282 ♂, National Park, QLD; ANIC(MMUS) 2♂, National Park, QLD; BMNH 2♂; NMV T2313 ♂ (labelled cotype), National Park, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: predator.

 

Diagnosis References

Ballantyne, L.A. & Lambkin, C. 2009. Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zootaxa 1997(1): 1-188 [Date published 4 Feb 2009] [42-43] (Additional notes)

 

More Information

http://springbrook.info/research/firefly.htm

 

General References

Ballantyne, L.A. & Lambkin, C. 2000. Lampyridae of Australia (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae: Luciolini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 15–93 [Date published 31 Dec. 2000] [25] (redescribed)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Jun-2013		21-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
21-Jun-2013		13-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)