Luciola kagiana Matsumura Smaller 1928

Luciola kagiana Matsumura 1928 Luciola kagiana Matsumura 1928: 39. Jeng et al. 2003b: 260. Chen 2003: 168. Fu 2014: 30. Yiu 2017: 98. Type. Female. TAIWAN (as Formosa). Chiayi (as Kagi). Hokkaido University Museum. Diagnosis. Most obviously distinguished from other similarly coloured Luciola by its large size and uniformly coloured pronotum; 10.5−15.0 mm long; pronotum pinkish red; MS yellowish brown, elytra black. Assigned to Luciola s. str. based on diagrams of aedeagus in Fu (2014) and Yiu (2017). Aedeagal sheath with anterior margin of sheath tergite not produced; posterior area of sternite produced and apically emarginated. Aedeagus slender, with ML swollen at base and narrowing in apical 1/5; narrow apical portion 1/6 s wide as wider basal portion; leaf like lobes slender elongate; LL closely approach along median dorsal line; apices of LL expanded. Possible larvae have laterally explanate tergal margins.
Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098
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