The Pleotomini 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 ...
.
Systematics
The group has recently been examined using molecular phylogenetics, using fairly comprehensive sampling.
Genera
* ''
Calyptocephalus''
Gray, 1832
* ''
Ophoelis''
Olivier, 1911
* ''
Phaenolis''
Gorham, 1880
* ''
Pleotomodes''
Green, 1948
* ''
Pleotomus''
LeConte, 1881
* ''
Roleta''
McDermott, 1962
References
Lampyridae
Beetle tribes
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