Luciola chapaensis Pic 1923 Figs 246−257 Luciola chapaensis Pic 1923: 59. McDermott 1966: 101. Type. Luciola chapaensis Pic. VIETNAM as ‘ Tonkin’. Chapa. Probably male, fragmentary consisting of head prothorax and one complete elytron. (MNHN). Luciola atripes Pic 1929: 73. McDermott 1966: 99. New synonymy. Type. Luciola atripes Pic. VIETNAM as ‘ Tonkin’. Chapa. Fragmentary consisting of elytra only (impossible to determine sex). (MNHN). Other specimens examined: VIETNAM. South Annam, Langbian Prov., Dran, 3000 feet, III–IV. 1918 C Boden Closs, male (MZUM). MYANMAR as Birmanie: Tenasserim, J.V. Helfer 2 males (PRAGUE). MALAYSIA Peninsula: Kelantan: Banjaran Titi Wangsa Kampong Lawa env. 24– 26.2.1997 Ivo Jenis, male (PRAGUE). Pahang: Cameron Highlands Path 6, 20.iv.2016, B. Nada, male (CH SIX 1) (FRIM). Diagnosis. Males about 10 mm long. Colour: (Figs 246−248) with a yellowish pronotum which may have a median dark marking, and pale brown elytra with white apices and part or all of the lateral margin and suture paler than remainder; type male of chapaensis (Fig. 247) has dark median marking on pronotum as do both Malaysian specimens (pronotal colour pattern in South Annam male may appear to be a median dark marking expanded across the posterior margin but is difficult to interpret and may be due to at least partial retraction of underlying muscles in pronotum; Fig. 248); in S. Annam specimen vertex is yellow and frons black; Kelantan specimen has black head (Figs 248, 249); most of venter and legs brownish except for black tarsi and narrow black posterior margin of V5, and yellowish LO; dorsal abdomen brown (Fig. 2, T6–8 mottled yellowish and semitransparent, may be mottled with brown or the underlying abdominal contents are visible and confuse interpretation of colour). Pronotum: subparallel sided, with pronotal width less than humeral width, and wider than long (L/W 0.6). Elytra: subparallel sided, no interstitial lines well defined. Head: almost as wide as pronotum, GHW 10 x SIW, ASD

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 pages 88-90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098