Paraphotinus is a genus of Central American fireflies (first described as a subgenus),[1] distinguished from the closely related Photinus by the presence of ventral branches in their aedeagal parameres.[2] It was recently elevated to genus level.[3]

Paraphotinus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lampyridae
Tribe: Photinini
Genus: Paraphotinus
Zaragoza-Caballero, 1995[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago (1995). La familia Lampyridae (Coleoptera) en la Estación de Biología Tropical "Los Tuxtlas", Veracruz, México. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Biología, Publicaciones Especiales 14. pp. 1–93.
  2. ^ Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago (2007-04-02). "A new species of Photinus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini) from Jalisco, Mexico, with comments on intraspecific aedeagal variability and a key to the species of the subgenus Paraphotinus". Zootaxa. 1437 (1): 61–67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1437.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  3. ^ a b Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago; López-Pérez, Sara; Vega-Badillo, Viridiana; Domínguez-León, Daniel E.; Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M.; González-Ramírez, Mireya; Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G.; Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina; Zurita-García, Martín L. (2020-02-13). "Luciérnagas del centro de México (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): descripción de 37 especies nuevas". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 91. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3104. ISSN 2007-8706. S2CID 213941088.