Species Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915

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• Atyphella olivieri Lea, A.M. 1915. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40(3): 490-521 pl XLVIII [Date published Dec. 10, 1915] [494].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM 6♂, Qld, Cairns.
  Paralectotype(s) AM 6♂, Cairns, QLD; SAMA 8♂, Cairns, QLD; BMNH 2♂; NMV T12423–12424 2♂, QLD; NMV T2877–2878 2♂, QLD; NMV T2309–2312 4♂, Cairns, QLD; QM 2♂ (formerly in ICUQ).

  Subsequent designation 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] [48].
• Luciola olivierius McDermott, F.A. 1966. Lampyridae. pp. 1-149 in Steel, W.O. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 9 149 pp. [Date published 26 April 1966] [110] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [177]

 

Generic Combinations

• Luciola (Luciola) oliveri (Lea, 1915). —
  McDermott, F.A. 1964. The taxonomy of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 90: 1-72 [Date published 27 March 1964] [16]
• Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915 [comb. rev.]. —
  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. [177]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), 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] [50] (additional notes)

 

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] [48] (redescription, revision)

 

History of changes

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