Inflata Boontop 2015

Figs 78−80, 83

Inflata Boontop in Ballantyne et al. (2015): 48, figs 117−130.

Type species. Luciola indica Motschulsky monobasic. (ZMUM) .

Other specimens examined. S.N. = Sorasak Nak-eiam. THAILAND. 19°16’ N, 98°33’ E, Mae Hong Son province, Pai district, 1,187 msl., 3.vi.2011, pine forest, 3 males (SN˗MSB˗028) S.N. (NUNHM). 15°44’ N, 98°59’ E, Tak province, Um Phang district, 956 msl., 18.iv.2008, forest park, 3 males (SN ˗ TKA ˗019) S.N. (NUNHM) .

Diagnosis. Modified slightly from Ballantyne et al. 2015. Inflata is a monotypic S.E. Asian genus with orange pronotum and largely black elytra, a trisinuate posterior margin to V7 and no MFC (Figs 78, 79). It can only be identified by dissection of the genitalia. It differs from all other Luciolinae in the bulbous ML of the aedeagus and the LL which are divided into a broad basal portion (Fig. 80 LL1) and very narrow apical portion (Fig. 80 LL2). It belongs in a group of genera (viz. Australoluciola Ballantyne, Colophotia Dejean, Medeopteryx Ballantyne, Pteroptyx Olivier, Pyrophanes Olivier and Trisinuata Ballantyne) characterized by: an aedeagus with lateral lobe apices concealed behind the ML when viewed from beneath, pronotal width less than width across the elytral humeri, parallel-sided elytra, aedeagal sheath elongate slender, widest across the middle, with posterior half of sternite not emarginate on either side and tapering evenly towards a narrow entire apex. Males are distinguished from Colophotia in being without a median carina on V7, expanded and oblique PLP or bipartite LO in V7; from Pteroptyx s. str. in lacking an MFC, deflexed elytral apices, and bipartite LO in V7; from those Pteroptyx with entire LO in V7 by the absence of a MFC, and from P. testacea, which does not have the MFC, by an entire LO in V7 ( testacea has a bipartite LO in V7)from Pyrophanes in being without incurving lobes along V7 and bipartite LO; from Trisinuata by the entire LO in V7; from most Medeopteryx in being without deflexed elytral apices. Female probably macropterous, larva unknown.