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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Lucidotini » Photinus » marginella/curtatus complex (Photinus marginella/curtatus complex)

marginella/curtatus complex

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Works Cited
6008182 - Photinus 8005926 - Photinus Firefly - Photinus - female Pale Firefly - Photinus Photinus? - Photinus marginellus Lampyrid - Photinus Firefly - Photinus curtatus - male Beetle - Photinus marginellus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Lampyridae (Fireflies)
Subfamily Lampyrinae
Tribe Lucidotini
Genus Photinus
No Taxon marginella/curtatus complex
Numbers
2 spp. that cannot be separated by external characters (Ph. curtatus Green, Ph. marginellus LeConte)(1)
Size
6.5-9 mm
Identification
Small, usually pale, with convex sternites and pale posterior margin on sternite 5. The pronotal stripe is teardrop-shaped or absent.
Range
Southern Canada and e US
Season
Jun-Aug, active into Oct in the south
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic species of Photinus (Lampyridae: Coleoptera).
Green, J.W. 1956. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 28: 561–613.
Contributed by Stephen Luk on 21 December, 2010 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by margarethe brummermann, v belov
Last updated 3 February, 2021 - 11:18am

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