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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Lucidotini » Pyropyga » Pyropyga decipiens
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Pyropyga sp. - Pyropyga decipiens
Copyright © 2009 Tim Moyer

Pyropyga sp. - Pyropyga decipiens
Medford, (~25 miles east of Philadelphia, PA) Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
July 4, 2009
Size: 5.9m

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Contributed by Tim Moyer on 31 July, 2009 - 12:28pm
Last updated 10 August, 2011 - 7:51am

Moved
Moved from Pyropyga.
… v belov, 1 August, 2009 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

 
I think this may be in Genus Ellychnia - Diurnal Fireflies
I'm not sure at all about this but the small size seems to be the strongest point favoring Genus Pyropyga.

The Pyropyga info page suggests light producing organs greatly reduced but not (necessarily?) absent.

They refer to a thrird antenna segment length that is not supposed to be longer than the forth. Yours is pretty close, however, just by overall look, the shape of the antennas seems different.

Another overall impression: the horse shoe shape of the orange around the pronotum seems more typical of Ellychnia than Pyropyga.

This is just a suggestion, not a correction! Keep in mind that I placed a specimen that I posted in Genus Ellychnia, only to have it moved by an expert to Genus Pyropyga! I may be trying to make up for that by sending one back!

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(here is the one I posted)

… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 18 October, 2010 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

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