Lamprocerini

The Lamprocerini are a tribe of fireflies in the large subfamily Lampyrinae, though at least some Lamprocerini species are not bioluminescent. They are generally neotropical, found in North America only as vagrants.[1]

Lamprocerini
Lamprocera latreillei
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Lamprocerini

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Footnotes

  1. Stanger-Hall et al. (2007)

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


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