:''In botany, "Cladodes" may refer to a synonym of the genus ''
Alchornea'' or to the plural of "
cladode".''
''Cladodes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
firefly
The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s.
It used to be included in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Amydetinae, which is probably a highly artificial
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
assemblage however. Thus, the genus is moved to the
Lampyrinae for the time being.
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
within this genus include:
* ''
Cladodes flabellatus''
Solier in Gay, 1849
* ''
Cladodes malleri''
Pic, 1935
References
Lampyridae
Lampyridae genera
Bioluminescent insects
Cladode A green leaf-like plant shoot.
[Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F.1968. ''Excursion Flora of the British Isles'' Cambridge University Press .{{ISBN, 0 521 04656 4]