The Lamprocerini are a
tribe
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of
fireflies
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 ...
in the large
subfamily
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Lampyrinae
The Lampyrinae are a large subfamily of fireflies ( Lampyridae). The exact delimitation, and the internal systematics, have until recently been a matter of debate; for long this group was used as a " wastebin taxon" to hold any fireflies with ins ...
, though at least some Lamprocerini
species
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are not
bioluminescent
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in the adult stage. They are generally
neotropical
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Definition
In biogeogra ...
, found in
North America
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only as vagrants.
[Stanger-Hall ''et al.'' (2007)]
Systematics
The group has recently been examined using molecular phylogenetics, using fairly comprehensive sampling.
Genera
* ''
Alecton''
Laporte, 1833
* ''
Lamprocera''
Laporte, 1833
* ''
Lucernuta''
Laporte, 1833
* ''
Lucio''
Laporte, 1833
* ''
Lychnacris''
Motschulsky, 1853
* ''
Tenaspis''
LeConte, 1881
Footnotes
References
* (2007): Phylogeny of North American fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Implications for the evolution of light signals. ''
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.'' 45(1): 33–49.
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Lampyridae
Beetle tribes
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