Photinus stellaris
| Photinus stellaris | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Lampyridae |
| Genus: | Photinus |
| Species: | P. stellaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Photinus stellaris Fall, 1927 | |
Photinus stellaris is a species of firefly in the family Lampyridae, which belongs to suborder Polyphaga -a group that includes water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles.[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Photinus stellaris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- 1 2 "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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