Aquatica hydrophila (Jeng et al.)

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 : 6

Aquatica hydrophila (Jeng et al.)

Fig. 16

Luciola hydrophila Jeng et al. 2003:544 .

Type. Male. CHINA; Taiwan, Wulai (National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan). Not examined by these authors.

Specimen examined. CHINA: Taiwan, Yanminshan, 30.iv.1996, N. Ohba, male ( ANIC). Taibei County, Wulai village, 20 April. 2008, Jiaxiong Wu, male and female (Fu collection).

Diagnosis. One of three species of Aquatica with dark brown elytra; most similar to A. wuhana sp. n., distinguished from both A. lateralis and A. wuhana sp. n. by the pale pronotum ( Fig. 16 ) (both of these species have median dark pronotal colouring); aedeagus with LL not inturned, not hooked, and lacking teeth along inner basal margins; ML with basal half or more bulbous, slender in apical area, aedeagal sheath with sternite apically entire; not strongly bent to right in posterior half; sheath sternite about as wide in posterior half as anterior half; females macropterous and coloured as for males. Jeng et al. (2003:545) indicated ‘larvae usually live in ditches or small creeks with shallow and clear water, fast current and cobble benthos’.

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.