Species Pyrophanes beccarii Olivier, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pyrophanes beccarii 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 [369].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂ (`un seul ♂'), Aru Ils (as Ile Arou), Indonesia.
• Luciola complicata Lea, A.M. 1921. On Australian Coleoptera of the family Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 45: 50-135 [67].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA I.11844 2♂ ♀, Coen River, QLD.

 

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. [180]

 

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: N Gulf, NE coastal

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, tropical, volant.

Larva: predator.

 

Diagnosis References

Ballantyne, L., Lambkin, C.L., Boontop, Y. & Jusoh, W.F.A. 2015. Revisional studies on the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): 1. The firefly genus Pyrophanes Olivier with two new species. 2. Four new species of Pteroptyx Olivier. 3. Inflata gen. nov. Boontop, with redescription of Luciola indica (Motsch.) as Inflata indica comb. nov. Zootaxa 3959(1): 1-84 [22-25] (redescription)

 

History of changes

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21-Jun-2013		21-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
		13-Aug-2012	MODIFIED