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

Aquatica lateralis (Motsch.)

Figs 8–16

Luciola lateralis Motschulsky, 1860: 144 . Olivier 1902 a: 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, 1902 a: 77; 1902 b: 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); elytra very dark brown; aedeagus ( Figs 10–12) with LL apices inturned and broadly hooked; inner margins of lateral lobes in basal third toothed (arrowed in Fig. 10); aedeagal sheath ( Figs 13, 14) 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).