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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) » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Phengodini » Glowworms (Phengodes)

Genus Phengodes - Glowworms

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
I found this larvae in a pitfall trap on a rocky hillside. It only has three pairs of legs in the front. - Phengodes Glowworm!!! - Phengodes Caterpillar? - Phengodes Beetle Larvae - Phengodes Phengodes - male Phengodidae - Phengodes - female Glowworm Beetle - Phengodes - male fire-colored beetle Dendroides? - Phengodes
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 Phengodidae (Glowworm Beetles)
Tribe Phengodini
Genus Phengodes (Glowworms)
Explanation of Names
Phengodes Illiger 1807
Greek phengodes 'shining'(1)
Numbers
10 spp. in 2 subgenera (7 Phengodes s. str. + 3 Phengodella) in our area; 28 spp. total(2)(3)
Size
♂ 11-20 mm, ♀ up to 40-65 mm(4)(5)
Identification
key to spp. in Wittmer (1975)(3)
Range
Phengodes s. str. - e. US to AZ (with other spp. in Mexico); Phengodella, in CA & TX (with other spp. from Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador)(2)
Internet References
Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn 2009
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.The genus Phengodes in the United States (Coleoptera: Phengodidae)
Wittmer W. 1975. Col. Bull. 29: 231-250.
4.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
5.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 4 May, 2006 - 9:15am
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 May, 2017 - 1:50pm

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