Comparative morphology and key to Amydetinae genera, with description of three new firefly species (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)

By

Gonçalves, Lucas
Vaz N. Campos, Stéphanie
Mermudes, José Ricardo Miras
Diniz Ferreira, André Luis
Silveira, Luiz

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1114

Pages

131--166

Subjects

Amydetes , Atlantic forest , Magnoculus , Memoan , Neotropics

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1114.77692

 

Abstract

Amydetinae is an exclusively Neotropical subfamily of fireflies, distributed among three genera: Amydetes Illiger, 1807, Magnoculus McDermott, 1964, and Memoan Silveira & Mermudes, 2013. Here, we describe three new species of Amydetinae: two belonging to Amydetes (A. alexisp. nov. and A. marolaesp. nov.) and one to the previously monotypic Memoan (Me. conanisp. nov.). All three species are known only from the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Endoskeletal structures of Memoan and Magnoculus species are described and compared with those of Amydetes for the first time. After studying the type material, Photinus fruhstorferi Pic, 1942 is transferred to Memoan, generating Memoan fruhstorfericomb. nov., and Me. ciceroi Silveira & Mermudes, 2013 syn. nov. is placed as a junior synonym. We also redescribe Magnoculus obscurus Olivier, 1885 and compare it to other species of genus and to other amydetine taxa to identify potential new diagnostic traits for the Amydetinae and its constituting genera. We provide an updated diagnosis for Memoan, illustrations for all four species, and a distribution map for the three new species, as well as a key to adult males of the three amydetine genera, and an updated key to Amydetes species based on males.