Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Microphotus

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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 Lampyrini
Genus Microphotus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Microphotus LeConte 1866
Numbers
6 spp. in sw. US and adjacent Mexico(2)
Remarks
Larviform females
Internet References