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Tribe Cratomorphini

Lycidae or Lampyridae larva? - Pyractomena Lampryid larva Ellychnia ? - Pyractomena Firefly - Pyractomena borealis Unknown - Pyractomena Pyractomena? - Pyractomena Coleoptera. Lampyridae. Pyractomena - Pyractomena Pennsylvania Firefly Pupa - Pyractomena borealis firefly - Pyractomena - male - female
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 Cratomorphini
Explanation of Names
Cratomorphini Green 1948
Numbers
20 spp. (of which 18 Pyractomena) in 3 genera in our area(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.