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lightning bug - Photuris
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

lightning bug - Photuris
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
June 5, 2009

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 7 June, 2009 - 11:12am
Last updated 10 August, 2009 - 5:26pm

forget about it...
they tend to be unIDable based on morphology
… v belov, 7 June, 2009 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
19 in North America
Just read that there's 19 of them in N.A., so I can see the problem. Thanks for having a look at any rate.
… Andrew Williams, 7 June, 2009 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

 
in most 'normal' genera...
...19 spp. is nothing -- some contain hundreds of spp. mostly recognizable by a trained eye, but no 'trained eye' is possible as it comes to some lampyrid genera
… v belov, 7 June, 2009 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

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