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Pyractomena
Genus
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
Genus
Pyractomena
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in
(
1
)
Explanation of Names
Pyractomena
LeConte 1845
Numbers
18 spp. in our area
(
2
)
Identification
Strong apical pronotal angle, with the anterior pronotal half obfuscate
Range
across NA except sw. US, with just scattered localities west of KS
(
2
)
Remarks
not to be confused with
Pyracto
nem
a
(a neotropical genus)
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2
)
Works Cited
1.
Revision of the Nearctic species of Pyractomena.
Green, J.W. 1957. Wasmann Journal of Biology 15(2): 237-284.
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.
Contributed by
Tony DiTerlizzi
on 21 July, 2004 - 6:58pm
Additional contributions by
Bug Eric
,
Beatriz Moisset
,
urtica
,
Bbarnd
,
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 21 November, 2023 - 8:50pm