Aquatica leii (Fu et Ballantyne)

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 leii (Fu et Ballantyne)

Figs 17–26

Luciola leii Fu and Ballantyne, 2006:339 . Fu et al. 2007:117.

Type. Male. CHINA: Hubei province, Wuhan city (NHMHAU).

Diagnosis. The only species of Aquatica with pale yellowish to brown dorsal colouration ( Fig. 17 ); aedeagus ( Figs 19 – 21 ) with LL apices inturned and hooked (arrowed in Figs 20, 21 ); lacking teeth along inner basal margins of lateral lobes; aedeagal sheath sternite ( Figs 22 – 24 ) with both anterior and posterior sections inclining to the right giving the sheath an angulate appearance where these sections join; posterior margin slightly produced and rounded, not emarginate; right margin bearing well defined toothed projection 1/3 length from tergite articulations, left side with smaller projection 1/3 length from apex. Females macropterous and coloured as for males; bursa bearing paired small fine plates and a single large asymmetrically shaped plate near the entry of the common oviduct. This species was collected in rice fields on the campus of Huazhong Agricultural University. Larvae ( Figs 25, 26 ) have many glandular projections on eversible organs arising along the sides of the body ( Fu et al. 2007). Fu and Ballantyne’s Fig. 4 (2006:343) does not indicate the small tooth like projection on the inner right of the aedeagal sheath sternite.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 26. Aquatica leii male (17 – 24) and larva (25, 26). 17, 18 dorsal and ventral. 19 – 21 aedeagus left lateral, dorsal and ventral (arrows indicate apical hooked areas on LL). 22 – 24 aedeagal sheath ventral (22, 23) and dorsal (arrows indicate lateral projections of margins of sheath sternite). 25, 26 dorsal and ventral whole body, anterior end to top of page. Scale line is 1 mm.

FIGURES 2 – 7. Aquatica ficta male, female (Fig. 4 only). 2, 4 ventral, 3 dorsal, whole body. 5 aedeagal sheath ventral (arrows indicate lateral projections of margins of sheath sternite). 6, 7 aedeagus dorsal and ventrolateral. Scale line is 1 mm.