Atyphella atra Lea, 1921

Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 1997, pp. 1-188 : 42-43

Atyphella atra Lea, 1921

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Atyphella atra Lea, 1921a:198 . Ballantyne in Calder 1998: 177 (comb. rev.) Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 25; 2001: 374, 2006: 30.

Luciola (Luciola) atra (Lea) . McDermott, 1966: 99.

Luciola (Atyphella) atra (Lea) . Ballantyne & McLean, 1970: 281. Moore, 1989: 136.

Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: 28.19S, 153.05E, Lamington National Park (C2290 QM).

Diagnosis. Males distinguished from most other Atyphella by the acute frons-vertex junction, the small (probably non–functional) mouthparts, the contiguous antennal sockets, the brown – dark brown parallelsided elytra; females pale coloured with fully developed elytra and vestigial hind wings; paler male specimens very like A. similis , which has angulate posterolateral pronotal corners, separated antennal sockets, well developed mouthparts and flightless brachelytral females. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000) distinguished atra and similis most obviously by their distinctive females.