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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Agrypninae » Pyrophorini » Glowing Click Beetles (Deilelater) » Deilelater physoderus

Species Deilelater physoderus

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)
Family Elateridae (Click Beetles)
Subfamily Agrypninae
Tribe Pyrophorini
Genus Deilelater (Glowing Click Beetles)
Species physoderus (Deilelater physoderus)
Other Common Names
Lantern click beetle, glowing click beetle
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pyrophorus texanus Hyslop 1918
Explanation of Names
Deilelater physoderus (Germar 1842)
Range
TX-FL-GA, Mex.; mostly Houston to the Trans-Pecos to s. Texas
Remarks
comes to lights (imagine that!)
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 March, 2008 - 12:31am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, bmathison1972
Last updated 18 July, 2022 - 8:47am

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