Species Australoluciola nigra (Olivier, 1885)
- Luciola gestroi nigra Olivier, E. 1885. Catalogue des Lampyrides faisant partie des collections du Musée Civique de Gênes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2a 2: 333-374 [366] [stat. nov. Ballantyne, L.A. in Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [179]: raised from variety under L. (L.) flavicollis].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MCG ♂, Somerset, Cape York, QLD. - Luciola humilis Olivier, E. 1896. Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de Lampyrides du Musée de Tring. Novitates Zoologicae 3(1): 1-3 [2].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, Cairns, QLD. - Luciola scutellaris Lea, A.M. 1929. On Coleoptera, mostly from Queensland. (Part II). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 335-363 [Date published Jun. 29, 1929] [344].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA I17051 4♂ 3♀, Groote Eylandt, NT; QM 1 specimen, Groote Eylandt, NT.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Ballantyne, L.A. in Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [179] (also for sp. rev.)
Generic Combinations
- Australoluciola nigra (Olivier, 1885). —
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 [58]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: terrestrial, volant.
Larva: predator.
Tropical.
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] [63] (re-described)
Lea, A.M. 1909. Revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1909(1): 45-251 pls II-VI [Date published Jun. 4, 1909] [108] (description of macropterous female)
History of changes
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