Luciola antipodum Bourgeois, 1884 [Lampyridae: Luciolinae]

Luciola antipodum Bourgeois, 1884: 285.

Rhagophthalmus antipodum: Olivier 1902: 87; Fauvel, 1904: 140.

Bourgeoisia antipodum: Olivier 1908: 17.

Distribution.

New Caledonia, Solomon Islands.

Remarks.

This firefly species was originally described in Luciola Laporte, 1833 (Bourgeois 1884) and later transferred to Rhagophthalmus by Olivier (1902). The same author later placed this species in his new genus Bourgeoisia Olivier, 1908, and McDermott (1966) subsequently designated it the type species of this genus. Bourgeoisia is currently considered a synonym of Luciola (e.g., Ballantyne and Lambkin 2013; Ballantyne et al. 2019). For more information on L. antipodum see e.g., McDermott (1966); Ballantyne (1968); Ballantyne and Lambkin (2013); and Ballantyne et al. (2019).