Rhagophthalmus ohbai Wittmer in Wittmer and Ohba 1994

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Rhagophthalmus ohbai Wittmer in Wittmer and Ohba 1994

Rhagophthalmus ohbai Wittmer in Wittmer and Ohba 1994: 344.

Rhagophthalmus ohba : Branham and Wenzel 2001: 567 [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling not in prevailing usage].

Type depository.

Holotype, male (YCM). Three paratypes, sex unknown (YCM), three paratypes, two males and one female (NHMB), two paratypes, sex unknown (NWU).

Type locality.

Japan: Okinawa Prefecture, Yaeyama Islands, Iriomote Island, Sonai.

Distribution.

Japan (Yaeyama Islands), Taiwan ( Chen and Ho 1996, 1998; Ho et al. 2012).

Literature.

Wittmer and Ohba (1994: 344): original description, drawings of male and female habitus, male antenna and genitalia; Ohba (1995: 13): remark, bioluminescence; Chen and Ho (1996: 46): distribution, figure of habitus; Ohba et al. (1996a: 1): morphology, biology, figures of habitus, body details, and bioluminescence; Ohba et al. (1996b: 30): remark; Nakane (1997: 36): remark; Ohba (1997a: 5): checklist, biology, figures of larval, male and female habitus, male head, and female bioluminescence; Ohba (1997b: 19): remark; Ohba (1997c: 51): breeding, development, immature stages, figures of habitus; Ohba et al. (1997: 25): remark; Suzuki (1997: 4): phylogeny, biology; Wittmer (1997: 259): comparison with R. angulatus ; Chen and Ho (1998: 34): bioluminescence; Kawashima (1998: 16): female morphology, drawing of female habitus; Ohba (1998: 3): checklist, biology; Costa et al. (1999: 22): remark; Viviani et al. (1999: 8274): remark [as Ragophthalmus [sic!]]; Goto and Kawashima (2000: 143): distribution; Kawashima (2000: 131): remarks; Kim et al. (2000: 214): molecular phylogeny; Ohmiya et al. (2000: 32): luciferase; Viviani and Ohmiya (2000: 267): remark [as Ragophthalmus [sic!]]; Branham and Wenzel (2001: 567): phylogeny [also as R. ohba [sic!]]; Kawashima and Satô (2001: 432): comparison with R. jenniferae ; Kobayashi et al. (2001: 1): development, eggs; Viviani et al. (2001: 1287): bioluminescence [as Ragophthalmus [sic!]]; Kobayashi et al. (2002: 1): embryogenesis, figures of female habitus and bioluminescence; Ugarova and Brovko (2002: 322): bioluminescence; Viviani (2002: 1836): remark [as Ragophthalmus [sic!]]; Viviani et al. (2002: 538): remark [as Ragophthalmus [sic!]]; Branham and Wenzel (2003: 5): phylogeny [also as R. ohba [sic!]]; Chen (2003: 52): morphology, bioluminescence, figures of adult males and females, larva, and bioluminescence; Hayashi and Suzuki (2003: 4): morphology, biology, figure of mating; Kawashima and Sugaya (2003: 353): remark, identification key; Kawashima et al. (2003: 255): catalogue; Kobayashi et al. (2003: 19): embryogenesis, development; Satô and Kawashima (2003: 9): remark; DeCock (2004: 341): remark; Ohba (2004a: 226): bioluminescence, biology, figures of male and female habitus; Ohba (2004b: 6): bioluminescence, biology, figures of male and female habitus; Lau and Meyer-Rochow (2006: 20): eye morphology, figures of male and female head and eye; Li et al. (2006: 818): molecular phylogeny; Arnoldi et al. (2007: 2): molecular phylogeny; Bocak (2007: 225): catalogue; Geisthardt and Satô (2007: 234): catalogue [in Lampyridae incertae sedis]; Lau et al. (2007: 27): eye morphology of male; Li et al. (2007: 197): mitochondrial genome, phylogeny; Sagegami-Oba et al. (2007: 110): molecular phylogeny; Stanger-Hall et al. (2007: 38): molecular phylogeny [also as Rhagophtalmus [sic!]]; Li et al. (2008a: 259): comparison with R. lufengensis and M. giganteus , distribution; Li et al. (2008b: 496): review; Noguchi et al. (2008: 2): luciferase; Sheffield et al. (2008: 2500): mitochondrial genome; Suzuki and Kobayashi (2009: 30): embryogenesis, figure of egg; Chen et al. (2010: 203): habitus figure showing bioluminescence; Kawashima et al. (2010: 137): book chapter, figures of male and female habitus, and female ovipositor; Lawrence et al. (2011: 7): phylogeny, figure of female abdomen; Oba et al. (2011: 773): biology, bioluminescence, figures of male and female habitus, and female bioluminescence; Amaral et al. (2012: 1262): luciferase, phylogeny; Ho et al. (2012: 1): remarks, comparison with R. beigansis ; Timmermans and Vogler (2012: 300): molecular phylogeny; Amaral et al. (2014: 415): molecular phylogeny; Hosoe et al. (2014: 331): chemical defence, figures of male and female habitus; Kundrata et al. (2014: 167): molecular phylogeny; Martin et al. (2015: 519): molecular phylogeny; Amaral et al. (2016: 254): molecular phylogeny; Bocak et al. (2016: suppl.): molecular phylogeny; Kundrata et al. (2016: 296): molecular phylogeny; Amaral et al. (2017a: 674): remark; Amaral et al. (2017b: 84): phylogeny; Amaral et al. (2017c: 157): phylogeny; Martin et al. (2017: 568): molecular phylogeny; Wang et al. (2017: 6): molecular phylogeny; Bocak et al. (2018: suppl.): molecular phylogeny; Fallon et al. (2018: 8): genomes, bioluminescence; Stanger-Hall et al. (2018: 8): remark; Chen et al. (2019: 8): molecular phylogeny; He et al. (2019: 566): molecular phylogeny; Kundrata et al. (2019: 1263): molecular phylogeny; Liu et al. (2019: 3183): mitogenomic phylogeny; Martin et al. (2019: 3): molecular phylogeny; Liu et al. (2020: 47): luciferase, phylogeny; Zhang et al. (2020: 5): molecular phylogeny, bioluminescence; Ge et al. (2021: 3): mitogenomic phylogeny; Ge et al. (2022: 3): mitogenomic phylogeny; He et al. (2022: 4): mitogenomic phylogeny; Moreira et al. (2022: 7): luciferase, molecular phylogeny. In addition to the aforementioned literature, this species was included in PhD theses by Ho (2002) and Jeng (2008).