Subfamily
Lampyrinae (Typical fireflies)
Microphotus angustus. Photo: (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Infraorder: Elateriformia (Elateriform beetles)
- Superfamily: Elateroidea (Click, firefly, and soldier beetles)
- Family: Lampyridae (Fireflies)
- Subfamily: Lampyrinae (Typical fireflies)
- Tribe: Photinini (1)
- Tribe: Lampyrini (1)
- Subfamily: Lampyrinae (Typical fireflies)
- Family: Lampyridae (Fireflies)
- Superfamily: Elateroidea (Click, firefly, and soldier beetles)
- Infraorder: Elateriformia (Elateriform beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
