Lampyrini

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]

Lampyrini
Egg-laden female of Lampyris noctiluca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Superfamily:	Elateroidea
Family:	Lampyridae
Subfamily:	Lampyrinae
Tribe:	Lampyrini Rafinesque, 1815
Synonyms
Pleotomini

Selected genera

The validity of several genera and the delimitation of others (such as Diaphanes and Pyrocoelia) is in need of review.[1]

Genera

These 16 genera belong to the tribe Lampyrini:

• Afrodiaphanes Geisthardt, 2007 ^{i c g}
• Alecton Laporte, 1833 ^{i c g}
• Diaphanes Motschulsky, 1853 ^{i c g}
• Lampyris Geoffroy, 1762 ^{i c g}
• Lychnobius Geisthardt, 1983 ^{i c g}
• Lychnuris
• Microlampyris Pic, 1956 ^{i c g}
• Microphotus LeConte, 1866 ^{i c g b}
• Nelsonphotus Cicero, 2006 ^{i c g b}
• Nyctophila E. Olivier, 1884 ^{i c g}
• Ovalampis Fairmaire, 1898 ^{i c g}
• Paraphausis Green, 1949 ^{i c g b}
• Pelania Mulsant, 1860 ^{i c g}
• Petalacmis E. Olivier, 1908 ^{i c g}
• Pleotomodes Green, 1948 ^{i c g b}
• Pleotomus LeConte, 1861
• Prolutacea Cicero, 2006 ^{i c g b}
• Pyrocoelia Gorham, 1880 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,[2] c = Catalogue of Life,[3] g = GBIF,[4] b = Bugguide.net[5]

Some of the Cratomorphini – maybe an entirely paraphyletic assemblage – might also belong here, e.g. Aspisoma.

References

1. 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
2. "Lampyrini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
3. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
4. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
5. "Lampyrini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-27.