Abscondita chinensis

Both males and females have pale elytra with black apices. There are black terminal abdominal tergites, and ventrite V is completely dark coloured. Male is about 5.7 to 8.3 mm in length. Pronotum orange yellow. A narrow median sulcus is reddish yellow. Elytra semi-transparent and orange yellow in color with apical dark brown area. There is a paler suture which may have underlying fat body. Head between eyes, antennae and palpi are dark brown. Ventrum and thorax orange yellow. Legs are orange yellow with brownish tips of femora. In male, the aedeagal sheath sternite terminated by apically acute and divergent lobes. Tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Abdomen orange yellow with ventral brown marking patterns. Pronotum is about 1.15 to 1.6 mm long. Female is 7.2 to 9.1 mm in length. Body color similar to that of male, but posterolateral brown markings on V5. Pronotum is 1.2 to 1.7 mm long. Antennae almost always slightly longer. Abdomen orange yellow in color with ventral brown markings. Larvae with pale paired anterolateral areas on protergum. Larvae intermittently glowing. Larval stage consists with five instars, and they matured in less than 5 months in captivity. Final instar larvae constructed pupal cells in soil. The mean pupal period is about 7 to 8 days. Pupae were observed to emit a continuous pale luminescent glow from the entire body. The newly-emergent adults also show weak glowing from the body. ==Biology==