Species Australoluciola australis (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lampyris australis Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [201].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GUM ♂, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
  Paralectotype(s) GUM ♀ (this specimen is misassociated and its identity is unknown), Australia (as Nova Hollandia).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ballantyne, L.A. 1988. The identities of Luciola australis (F.) and L. guerini Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27(3): 161-165 [162].
• Luciola pudica Olliff, A.S. 1890. New species of Lampyridae, including a notice of the Mt. Wilson fire-fly. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(3): 643-653 [Date published 3 February 1890] [652].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K33961 1 specimen (the description actually mentions 6 or 8 [sic] specimens), Bowen, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ballantyne, L.A. 1988. The identities of Luciola australis (F.) and L. guerini Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27(3): 161-165 [162]

 

Generic Combinations

• Australoluciola australis (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Ballantyne, L.A. & Lambkin, C.L. 2013. Systematics and Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific Luciolinae Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and the Description of new Genera. Zootaxa 3653(1): 1-162 [48]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mangrove, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: predator.

 

General References

Ballantyne, L.A. 1988. The identities of Luciola australis (F.) and L. guerini Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27(3): 161-165 [163] (description of larva and macropterous female)

Ballantyne, L.A. & Buck, E. 1979. Taxonomy and behavior of Luciola (Luciola) aphrogeneia, a new surf firefly from Papua New Guinea. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 105: 117-137 [Date published 6 July 1979] [128] (larval illustrations)

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] [57] (revised diagnosis)

Powell, L.A. 1964. The Lampyridae of Australia. Unpubl. M.Sc. Thesis Brisbane : University of Queensland. (biology)

 

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)