Missimia Ballantyne 2009

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Missimia Ballantyne in Ballantyne & Lambkin 2009: 72, figs 21, 22, 27, 29, 30, 32–34, 246–254)

Type species: Missimia flavida Ballantyne by monotypy.

Diagnosis. 12−13 mm long. A striking and rare genus, known from four specimens in one species from highland New Guinea. Males and females dorsally pale yellowish brown with black legs, elongate subparallel sided body and exposed head; males and females distinguished from all known Luciolinae by a heavily sclerotised labrum which is immovably joined to the rest of the head (there is no clypeolabral suture), and the slight acute prolongation of the posterolateral corners of the pronotum. The only known Luciolinae species apart from L. cruciata and L. owadai where the epipleuron at its base is narrow and does not cover the elytral humerus from below. Females macropterous, larvae unknown.