''Aquatica'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of fireflies in the subfamily Luciolinae. The species are found in China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia and Korea. Fu, Ballantyne and Lambkin erected the genus in 2010, using

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

, morphological and behavioural evidence. Its

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

is '' Aquatica wuhana''. It contains five species: *'' Aquatica lateralis'' (Motschulsky, 1860) *''

Aquatica ficta ''Aquatica ficta'' is a species of firefly found in Taiwan and parts of China. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Luciola''. Its habitat is still water, and the larvae are aquatic. Taxonomy The species was described as ''Luciola ficta'' by Er ...

'' (Olivier, 1909) *''

Aquatica hydrophila ''Aquatica hydrophila'' is a species of firefly found in Taiwan. Described in 2003, it was formerly placed in the genus ''Luciola''. The larvae are aquatic and live in ditches and small streams. Taxonomy Jeng, Lai and Yang described this species ...

'' (Jeng et al., 2003) *''

Aquatica leii Aquatica may refer to: * Aquatica (water parks), a chain of water parks in the United States ** Aquatica Orlando ** Aquatica San Antonio ** Aquatica San Diego * Aquatica (Kolkata), a water park in Kolkata * Aquatica KK, an aquarium in Kota Kin ...

'' (Fu & Ballantyne, 2006) *'' Aquatica wuhana'' Fu, Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2010 All of the species except ''A. wuhana'' were previously placed in '' Luciola''. The larvae are aquatic, and the name is derived from the English word.

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Lampyridae Lampyridae genera Bioluminescent insects {{firefly-stub