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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Photurinae » Photuris
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firefly - Photuris
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

firefly - Photuris
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 6, 2011
Size: 11mm
Attracted to porch light. Are any of these Photuris identifiable to species?

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Contributed by tom murray on 6 June, 2011 - 10:01pm

though, but...
....a cool new source that may help:(1)
[maybe its author will get to your pix even faster]
… v belov, 6 June, 2011 - 10:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Only one problem
They only list Photuris sp. and mention there's 21 eastern species with many waiting to be described.
… tom murray, 6 June, 2011 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

 
yeah...
i'm painfully aware of that --may well be the reason why we still have no sp pages ))
… v belov, 6 June, 2011 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Characters
The problem is that Photuris cannot presently be determined beyond the genus level: morphological characters (i.e. those provided by McDermott 1967) do not reliably separate species. I think that even if/when identification is eventually made possible, it will not be simple...
… Stephen Luk, 7 June, 2011 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

 
barcoding?
Maybe using barcoding or other dna markers will be used to sort through the genus, or maybe someone is already doing it?
… Brad Barnd, 7 June, 2011 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

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