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Tribe Cratomorphini

Firefly - Pyractomena angulata Firefly - Pyractomena dispersa what species? - Pyractomena Pyractomena Pyractomena Pyractomena Pyractomena angulata ? - Pyractomena angulata Pyractomena larva - Pyractomena
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 Cratomorphini
Explanation of Names
Cratomorphini Green 1948
Numbers
20 spp. (of which 18 Pyractomena) in 3 genera in our area(1), 7 genera total(2)
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.Higher-level phylogeny and reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)
Martin GJ, Stanger-Hall KF, Branham MA, Da Silveira LFL, Lower SE, Hall DW, Li X, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Bybee SM. 2019. Insect Systematics & Diversity 3(6), 11: 1‒15.