taxonID	type	description	language	source
03C087E9FFCDFFB1FF7AFB9CC4FDFED1.taxon	materials_examined	Type Material. Holotype male KU- 2016 - 08 - 23, pinned, with genitalia in a separate microvial, 17 ° 28 ′ 57 ″ N 98 ° 04 ′ 26 ″ E, 500 m, Tak, Thailand, 27 June 2016. Paratypes: Two males KU- 2016 - 08 - 18 and KU- 2016 - 08 - 24, pinned, with genitalia in a separate microvial, 17 ° 28 ′ 57 ″ N 98 ° 04 ′ 26 ″ E, 500 m, Tak, Thailand, 27 June 2016.	en	Sartsanga, Channarong, Chanchay, Pornchanan, Chaovalit, Sunadda, Ballantyne, Lesley A., Swatdipong, Akarapong, Sriboonlert, Ajaraporn (2017): Australoluciola thailandica Sriboonlert, Swatdipong, and Sartsanga, New Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand: First Record of the Genus Australoluciola Ballantyne from Southeast Asia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4): 727-732, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.727, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.727
03C087E9FFCDFFB1FF7AFB9CC4FDFED1.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Australoluciola thailandica belongs to that group of Australoluciola which do not have a trisinuate V 7. It can be distinguished from other species with non-trisinuate V 7, i. e., Australoluciola nigra (Olivier), Australoluciola orapallida (Ballantyne), and A. flavicollis, by its pale yellow abdomen with black marking on the thorax and its dark brown, almost black elytra. Both A. orapallida and A. flavicollis have elytra with paler margins, while A. nigra has a black abdomen with the LO on V 7 restricted to the medial area only. It is very similar to A. australis but can be distinguished by the shapes of T 8, V 7, and the aedeagus. Australoluciola australis has T 8 tapering toward the apex (Ballantyne and Lambkin 2013, fig. 30), whereas the apex of T 8 of A. thailandica is almost as wide as the width of T 8 (Fig. 2 F). The MPP of A. australis is short and apically rounded and the length approximately 1 / 6 that of V 7 (Ballantyne and Lambkin 2013, fig. 28), but the MPP of A. thailandica is elongate and truncated at the apex and the length 1 / 3 that of V 7 (Fig. 1 C, D). The aedeagus of A. australis is elongate slender and length / width ratio = 5 / 1 (Ballantyne and Lambkin 2013, figs. 31 – 33), but the aedeagus of A. thailandica relatively short and wide and length / width ratio = 3.75 / 1. Australoluciola thailandica is also very similar to Luciola trilucida Jeng and Lai and Inflata indica (Motschulsky) in size and color, but is distinguished by the nonemarginated elytral apex in L. trilucida and the trisinuated V 7 and short slender LL of I. indica (Ballantyne et al. 2015, figs. 127 – 131).	en	Sartsanga, Channarong, Chanchay, Pornchanan, Chaovalit, Sunadda, Ballantyne, Lesley A., Swatdipong, Akarapong, Sriboonlert, Ajaraporn (2017): Australoluciola thailandica Sriboonlert, Swatdipong, and Sartsanga, New Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand: First Record of the Genus Australoluciola Ballantyne from Southeast Asia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4): 727-732, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.727, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.727
03C087E9FFCDFFB1FF7AFB9CC4FDFED1.taxon	description	Description. Male. 4.1 – 4.5 mm long; 1.7 – 1.9 mm wide. Pronotum: 0.7 – 0.8 mm long 1.1 – 1.2 mm wide, pronotal width slightly less than humeral width (Fig. 2 C); yellow-orange, subparallel-sided, dorsal surface with dense punctuation, with dark median sulcus not reaching either anterior or posterior margins, median area of dorsal surface somewhat convex over eyes; with flat lateral margins. Head: GHW = 0.92 – 0.95 mm; pronotal width / GHW = 1.2.; eyes large, black; vertex shallowly depressed; antenna filiform; ASD = 0.05 mm; ASW = 0.07 mm; SIW = 0.22 mm; mandibles orange-brown, darker toward pointed apices; apical maxillary palpomere a laterally flattened triangle, widest at base, apex rounded, longer than wide; apical labial palpomere longer than wide, a flattened triangle similar to that of apical maxillary palpomere but smaller and thinner, half as long as apical maxillary palpomere and with inner edge entire, not dentate. Thorax: MS and MN yellow-orange; metasternum pale yellow with dark brown marking (Fig. 2 A, B). Elytron: 3.4 – 3.6 mm long, dark brown almost black, parallel-sided (Fig. 2 L); punctures dense, not as large as that on pronotum, unevenly spaced; epipleuron developed as ridge along margin and beyond apex but not around. Abdomen: T 1 – 5 pale yellow; T 6 – 8 transparent, fat body visible beneath cuticle; V 1 – 5 pale yellow (Fig. 2 B, D, P), fat body visible from posterior half of V 5 to V 7 and from ventral side margin of abdominal T 8; LO in V 6 – V 7 entire, occupying all of V 6 – V 7, and extending into the MPP; MPP present, symmetrical, as long as wide, posterior margin truncate; PLP absent, posterolateral corners rounded; T 8 symmetrical, as long as wide (Fig. 2 G), 0.53 mm, widest across middle with lateral margins tapering slightly more toward anterior margin than posterior margin, posterior corners rounded, posterior margin truncate beside short, narrow median emargination; ventral surface of T 8 without flanges and lateral ridges, no lateral depressed trough, slight median longitudinal trough; anterolateral arms of T 8 short, apically rounded. Legs: Prothoracic legs dark brown except for pale coxae, trochanters, and basal half of femora (Fig. 2 B); middle and hind legs dark brown except for pale coxae, trochanters, and femora; dark marking present on metacoxae; femora and tibiae not swollen or curved. Aedeagal sheath: 0.99 – 1.02 mm long, 0.34 – 0.35 mm wide, symmetrical without bulbous paraprocts, widest in the middle, evenly tapering anteriorly and posteriorly, anterior half of sternite relatively narrow, apically rounded (Fig. 2 I – K). Aedeagus: 0.76 – 0.78 mm long, 0.20 – 0.21 mm wide, slender, length / width ratio 3.75: 1.00; ML slightly longer than LL; posterior end of ML and LL curve toward each other; lateral margins of LL curving, tapering to apex; apices of LL rounded, LL of the same length, apices slightly visible from beneath at the side of the ML, separated longitudinally wider at anterior; ML slightly asymmetrical at apex, apex rounded and ventrally excavated; BP separated into 2 pieces, slightly asymmetrical, length 1 / 3 total aedeagal length, not strongly sclerotized (Fig. 2 M – O).	en	Sartsanga, Channarong, Chanchay, Pornchanan, Chaovalit, Sunadda, Ballantyne, Lesley A., Swatdipong, Akarapong, Sriboonlert, Ajaraporn (2017): Australoluciola thailandica Sriboonlert, Swatdipong, and Sartsanga, New Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand: First Record of the Genus Australoluciola Ballantyne from Southeast Asia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4): 727-732, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.727, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.727
03C087E9FFCDFFB1FF7AFB9CC4FDFED1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the country of origin of the type specimens.	en	Sartsanga, Channarong, Chanchay, Pornchanan, Chaovalit, Sunadda, Ballantyne, Lesley A., Swatdipong, Akarapong, Sriboonlert, Ajaraporn (2017): Australoluciola thailandica Sriboonlert, Swatdipong, and Sartsanga, New Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand: First Record of the Genus Australoluciola Ballantyne from Southeast Asia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4): 727-732, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.727, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.727
03C087E9FFCDFFB1FF7AFB9CC4FDFED1.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Australoluciola thailandica was collected using a sweep net in a deciduous forest area on the mountain near the Thailand-Republic of the Union of Myanmar border at 500 m elevation. No females or larvae associated with this species were found nor was a flash pattern observed. The type locality is comprised of mixed deciduous trees with a small stream running through the forest (Fig. 1 B). The samples were collected during June, which is the rainy season and has an average maximum temperature of 27 – 29 ° C. During our survey during 2012 – 2016 throughout Thailand, we collected only three male specimens of this species from one locality. A similar study on firefly diversity in the highlands of northern Thailand (Wattanachaiyingcharoen et al. 2016) reported a new record for the genus Trisinuata in Thailand, but Australoluciola was not collected Australoluciola. Asymmetricata circumdata (Motschulsky) was found in the same habitat with A. thailandica. Unlike A. thailandica, A. circumdata is widely distributed across Thailand (Nak-eiam et al. 2011), suggesting that A. thailandica may have more restrictive habitat requirements. The small numbers of individuals observed and the limited habitat and distribution of Australoluciola could be a causal factor in this genus not being reported previously in this region. Moreover, as A. thailandica does not show aggregation behavior, identification is more difficult as firefly species that do not fly in aggregation tend to be poorly represented in collections compared to those that do (LAB, personal observation). Our findings extend the range of Australoluciola into Southeast Asia. More work needs to be done on firefly diversity in this region to determine if more undescribed species will be discovered.	en	Sartsanga, Channarong, Chanchay, Pornchanan, Chaovalit, Sunadda, Ballantyne, Lesley A., Swatdipong, Akarapong, Sriboonlert, Ajaraporn (2017): Australoluciola thailandica Sriboonlert, Swatdipong, and Sartsanga, New Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Luciolinae) from Thailand: First Record of the Genus Australoluciola Ballantyne from Southeast Asia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4): 727-732, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.727, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.727
