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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) » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Lucidotini » Pyropyga

Genus Pyropyga

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Firefly - Pyropyga nigricans beetle - Pyropyga firefly - Pyropyga decipiens Black and red beetle - Pyropyga Lampyridae - Fireflies Pyropyga decipiens - Pyropyga decipiens Pyropyga firefly - Pyropyga nigricans Eastern Firefly? - Pyropyga
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 Lampyridae (Fireflies)
Subfamily Lampyrinae
Tribe Lucidotini
Genus Pyropyga
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Pyropyga Motschulsky 1852
Greek 'fire butt' (refers to the light organs)
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 10 total(2)(1)
Size
5-9 mm
Identification
Small, dark fireflies, similar to Ellychnia. Note these characters (3):
reduced (but not completely absent) light organs (absent in Ellychnia)
third antennal segment as long as or slightly longer than fourth segment (3rd shorter than 4th in Ellychnia)
small, 5-9 mm (Ellychnia typically >10 mm)
Range
New World, incl. most of our area(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the species of Pyropyga (Lampyridae)
Green J.W. 1961. Col. Bull. 15: 65-74.
2.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.
3.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.
Contributed by tom murray on 21 June, 2005 - 5:27am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, kschnei, v belov
Last updated 19 July, 2020 - 12:29am

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