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Photinus Laporte, 1833

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Sara López-Pérez, Viridiana Vega-Badillo, Daniel E. Domínguez-León, Geovanni M. Rodríguez-Mirón, Mireya González-Ramírez, Ishwari G. Gutiérrez-Carranza, Paulina Cifuentes-Ruiz & Martín L. Zurita-García. 2020. Luciérnagas del centro de México (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): descripción de 37 especies nuevas. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 91: e913104.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Lampyridae
genus
Photinus

Name

Synonyms
Ellychnia Blanchard, 1845
Macrolampis Motschulsky, 1853
Homonyms
Photinus Laporte, 1833

Bibliographic References

  1. Green JW (1956) Revision of the Nearctic species of Photinus (Lampyridae: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 28: 561-613.
  2. Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012).
  3. Keller, O.; Branham, M. A. (2021). A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4970(1): 53-105. 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.1.2
  4. Laporte, C.F.L.N.d.C.d. (1833) Essai díune revision du genere Lampyre. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 2, 122–153. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32293749 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32293749
  5. Laporte, F.L. (1833). Essai d'une Révision du genre Lampyre. <em>Annales de la Société Entomologique de France.</em> 2: 122-153.
  6. Lloyd, James E. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds., 2002: Family 62. Lampyridae Latreille 1817. American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 187-196.
  7. Martin, Gavin J., Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Marc A. Branham, Luiz F. L. Da Silveira et al., 2019: Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 3, issue 6. 1-15.
  8. McDermott, F. A. / Steel, W. O., ed., 1966: Lampyridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 9. 149.
  9. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  10. SN2000/Lawrence, 1982
  11. SN2000/Lawrence, 1982
  12. Viana, Jéssica Herzog, André Silva Roza, Stephanie Vaz, Gareth Powell, and et al., 2025: A new firefly genus from South America, with seven new species, a new combination, and notes on the phylogeny of Lampyrinae: Lucidotini (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). PeerJ, vol. 13, e18967. 1-34.
  13. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Sara López-Pérez, Mireya González-Ramírez, and et al., 2023: Luciérnagas (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) del norte-occidente de México, con la descripción de 48 especies nuevas. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol 94. 1-81.
  14. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Sara López-Pérez, Viridiana Vega-Badillo et al., 2020: Fireflies from central Mexico (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): description of 37 new species. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol. 91, e913104. 1-70.
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