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Genus Lucidota

Lampyridae? - Lucidota atra Beetle - Lucidota atra Lucidota atra?  - Lucidota atra Lucidota atra Beetle - Lucidota atra Beetles - Lucidota atra - male - female Lightning Bug / Firefly  - Lucidota atra firefly - Lucidota atra
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 Lucidotini
Genus Lucidota
Explanation of Names
Lucidota LaPorte 1833
from Latin lucidus 'bright, shining, clear'
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1), ~160 total(2)
Size
6‒12 mm (L. atra is ~12 mm; L. punctata is ~6 mm)
Identification
Small day-flying fireflies with light-producing organs absent or reduced to small yellowish spots on last abdominal sternite in female or last two sternites in male; antennae long, flattened, but not quite serrate(3):
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.
2.Catalogue of Life
3.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.