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Firefly - Photuris fairchildi - male
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Firefly - Photuris fairchildi - Male
Randolph, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
June 24, 2014

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Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2014 - 7:42pm
Last updated 2 July, 2016 - 7:03pm

Photuris fairchildi Barber, male
Moved from Photuris. Very tentatively ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.

These are very difficult to ID unless field observations of flashing patterns are done. However, it fits the external characters used to distinguish the species from P. pennsylvanica (1).
… Brad Barnd, 2 July, 2016 - 6:20pm

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