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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Cratomorphini » Pyractomena » Pyractomena borealis
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Firefly - Pyractomena borealis
Copyright © 2007 Ray Simpson

Firefly - Pyractomena borealis
Stormville, Dutchess County, New York, USA
Size: 15mm
Found on the side of a tree by daylight... Firefly

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Contributed by Ray Simpson on 17 May, 2007 - 11:12pm
Last updated 6 January, 2010 - 9:45am

Moved
Moved from Pyractomena.
… v belov, 6 January, 2010 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

This is clearly a pyract, wit
This is clearly a pyract, with the strong apical pronotal angle and with the anterior pronotal half obfuscate.
… joeCicero, 21 July, 2009 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

Date?
Do you have a date for this specimen? Its value is smaller without that info.
… Beatriz Moisset, 8 November, 2007 - 7:38am login or register to post comments

Pyractomena ?
Look like a Pyractomena sp. to me. Possibly P. borealis, but since I don't know the species of New York, I can be wrong.
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 18 May, 2007 - 9:33am login or register to post comments

 
Right genus.
Pretty sure it is Pyractomena, but no idea as to species. Does not appear to be P. angulata, the common one.
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 May, 2007 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

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