Aquatica lateralis (Motsch.)

Fu, Xinhua, Ballantyne, Lesley & Lambkin, Christine L., 2010, Aquatica gen. nov. from mainland China with a description of Aquatica Wuhana sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae), Zootaxa 2530, pp. 1-18 : 8

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Aquatica lateralis (Motsch.) View in CoL

Figs 8–16 View FIGURES 8 – 16

Luciola lateralis Motschulsky, 1860:144 View in CoL . Olivier 1902a:82; 1907;53. McDermott, 1966:108. Ohba, 1986:6; 1988:12. Jeng et al. 2003:546. Suzuki et al., 2004:287.

Luciola viticollis Kiesenwetter 1874:261 . Gorham, 1883:409. Olivier, 1902a:77; 1902b:189. Okada, 1931:146. McDermott, 1966:102.

Type. RUSSIA: Dahourie. Sex not determined. Not examined by Jeng et al. 2003 or these authors.

Specimens examined. JAPAN: Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Pref., 20.vi.1982, N. Ohba male ( ANIC). Matsuyama City, Ehinc Pref., 8.vii.1996, N. Ohba male ( ANIC). Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami- Ohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo. 2008. 28 May 2008, Hayashi (Fu collection).

Diagnosis. Luciola lateralis was originally recorded from Russia and Japan ( McDermott 1966). Ohba and Suzuki (pers. comm.) have later found it in South Korea but as yet there are no substantiated records from mainland China. We follow Jeng et al.’s (2003) interpretation of lateralis from Japan in the absence of type material. Males with reddish pink or yellowish pronotum having a median dark brown band extending from anterior to posterior margin ( Fig. 8, 15 View FIGURES 8 – 16 ); elytra very dark brown; aedeagus ( Figs 10–12 View FIGURES 8 – 16 ) with LL apices inturned and broadly hooked; inner margins of lateral lobes in basal third toothed (arrowed in Fig. 10 View FIGURES 8 – 16 ); aedeagal sheath ( Figs 13, 14 View FIGURES 8 – 16 ) with both sides of sternite strongly emarginated posterior to tergite articulations, and much narrower than anterior portion of sheath; lateral teeth of posterior margin of sheath as described for leii and wuhana sp. n., and sheath apex shallowly medially emarginate; females macropterous coloured as for males. Larvae are found in rice paddies ( Jeng et al. 2003) and males can copulate with a Taiwanese firefly that may be ficta ( Ohba 1983, 1986, 1990).

References

Jeng, M. L, Lai, J. & Yang, P. S. (2003) Lampyridae: A synopsis of aquatic fireflies with description of a new species (Coleoptera). Pp. 539 - 562 in Jach, MA & Ji, L. Editors. Water Beetles of China. Volume III. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Asterreich and wiener Coleopterologenverein. Vienna, Austria: 572 pp.

Gorham, H. S. (1883) Revision of the genera and species of Malacoderm Coleoptera of the Japanese fauna. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1883, 393 - 411.

Kiesenwetter, H. (1874) Die Malacodermen Japans nach den Ergebnissen der Sammlungen des Herrn L. Lewis wahrend der jahre 1869 - 1871. Deutsch Entomologische Zeitschrift, 18, 241 - 248.

McDermott, F. A. (1966) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Supplement 9. Lampyridae. Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk. Gravenhage, The Netherlands.

Motschulsky, V. de (1860) Coleopteres de la Siberie orientale et en particular des rives de lAmour (rapports par Schrenck, Maak, Ditmar, Voznessenski )). In Schrenck, L. von (Ed.) Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande 2, 79 - 257.

Ohba, N. (1983) Studies on the communication system of Japanese fireflies. Science report of the Yokosuka City Museum, 30, 1 - 62.

Ohba, N. (1986) Life of a firefly, Luciola lateralis. Insectarium, 23, 156 - 162. (in Japanese).

Ohba, N. & Goto, Y. (1990) Experimental mating in closely related species of Japanese fireflies. Science report of the Yokosuka City Museum, 38, 1 - 5.

Okada, Y. (1931) On the scientific names of fireflies of Japan. Zoological Magazine 43, 130 - 149. (In Japanese).

Olivier, E. (1902 a) Catalogue des especes de ' Luciola'et genres voisins decrits jusqu'ace jour. Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais, 15, 69 - 88.

Suzuki, H., Sato, Y., Ohba, N., Bae, J. S., Jin, B. R., Sohn, H. D. & Kim S. E. (2004) Phylogeographic analysis of the firefly, Luciola lateralis, in Japan and Korea based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene sequences (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Biochemical genetics, 42, 287 - 300.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 16. Aquatica lateralis male. Figure 16 Aquatica hydrophila male. 8 dorsal pronotum. 9 ventral terminal abdomen. 10 – 12 aedeagus dorsal, left lateral and ventral. 13, 14 aedeagal sheath ventral (arrows indicate lateral projections of margins of sheath sternite). 15, 16 dorsal body (15 minus abdomen). Scale line is 1 mm.