Subfamily

Lampyrinae (Typical fireflies)

Microphotus angustus. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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The Lampyrinae are a large subfamily of fireflies (Lampyridae). The exact delimitation, and the internal systematics, are a matter of debate; for long this group was used as a “wastebin taxon” to hold any fireflies with insufficiently resolved relationships. Regardless, they are very diverse even as a good monophyletic group, containing flashing and continuous-glow fireflies from the Holarctic and some tropical forms too. The ancestral Lampyrinae probably had no or very primitive light signals; in any…

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Subtaxa

Tribe: Photinini

Tribe: Lampyrini

Where in Humboldt

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