Lampyrini
| Lampyrini | |
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| Egg-laden female of Lampyris noctiluca | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Infraclass: | Neoptera |
| Superorder: | Endopterygota |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Superfamily: | Elateroidea |
| Family: | Lampyridae |
| Subfamily: | Lampyrinae |
| Tribe: | Lampyrini Latreille, 1817 |
| Genera | |
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7, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pleotomini | |
The Lampyrini are a tribe of fireflies in the large subfamily Lampyrinae. The lineage formerly separated as Pleotomini seems to be a specialized offshoot of the Lampyrini not too distant from the type genus Lampyris and is therefore included here. This tribe occurs throughout the Holarctic and contains the typical "glowing" or "continuous-light" fireflies from that region. Some otherwise very advanced Lampyrini, like species in Paraphausis and Pyrocoelia, have degenerated light-producing organs again and communicate primarily or even exclusively with pheromones like the ancestors of the fireflies did.[1]
Selected genera
The validity of several genera and the delimitation of others (such as Diaphanes and Pyrocoelia) is in need of review.[1]
- Diaphanes
- Lampyris
- Lychnuris
- Microphotus LeConte, 1866
- Nyctophila
- Paraphausis Green, 1948
- Pelania
- Pleotomodes Green, 1948
- Pleotomus LeConte, 1861
- Pyrocoelia
Some of the Cratomorphini – maybe an entirely paraphyletic assemblage – might also belong here, e.g. Aspisoma.
Footnotes
References
- Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F.; Lloyd, James E. & Hillis, David M. (2007): Phylogeny of North American fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Implications for the evolution of light signals. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(1): 33-49. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.013 PMID 17644427 PDF fulltext