Rhagophthalmidae

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Rhagophthalmidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Rhagophthalmidae
Genera

Cydistus
Dioptoma
Diplocladon
Dodecatoma
Falsophrixothrix
Ochotrya
Rhagophthalmus

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Members of the family Rhagophthalmidae are closely related to glowworm beetles, and were often included in that family, but were given independent status in 1994. They are distributed in the Old World, and little is known of their biology, though they do have bioluminescent larvae and adults.

[edit] References

Branham, M. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2003. The origin of photic behavior and the evolution of sexual communication in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Cladistics 19: 1-22.

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