Photinus stellaris is a species in the family Lampyridae ("fireflies"), in the suborder Polyphaga ("water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles").[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Lampyridae |
Genus: | Photinus |
Species: | P. stellaris
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Binomial name | |
Photinus stellaris Fall, 1927
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References
edit- ^ "Photinus stellaris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- ^ a b "Photinus stellaris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- ^ "Photinus stellaris Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- McDermott, F. A. / Steel, W. O., ed. (1966). "Lampyridae". Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 9, 149.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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