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Tribe Lucidotini

firefly? - Photinus pyralis Photinus Firefly - Photinus Beetle - Photinus Photinus pyralis Beetle for ID - Pyropyga Lampyridae, Phausis or Pyropyga?   - Phausis californica female Photinus species - Photinus - female
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Photinini LeConte 1881(1)
Explanation of Names
Lucidotini Lacordaire 1857(2)
Numbers
ca. 80 spp. (many still unnamed) in 7 genera in our area(1)
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.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.