''Aquatica'' 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 ...

fireflies The Lampyridae are a family (biology), family of Elateroidea, elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are bioluminescence, light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, ...

in the subfamily

Luciolinae The Luciolinae are among the largest subfamilies of fireflies (Lampyridae). They seem to be all "flashing" (as opposed to "continuous-glow") fireflies. They are a diverse lineage, spreading throughout the warm parts of Eurasia into temperate Euro ...

. The species are found in China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia and Korea. Fu, Ballantyne and Lambkin erected the genus in 2010, using

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

, morphological and behavioural evidence. Its

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

is '' Aquatica wuhana''. It contains five species: *'' Aquatica lateralis'' (Motschulsky, 1860) *'' Aquatica ficta'' (Olivier, 1909) *'' Aquatica hydrophila'' (Jeng et al., 2003) *''

Aquatica leii Aquatica may refer to: * Aquatica (water parks), a chain of water parks in the United States ** Aquatica Orlando ** Aquatica San Antonio ** Aquatica San Diego * Aquatica (Kolkata), a water park in Kolkata * Aquatica KK, an aquarium in Kota Kinabalu ...

'' (Fu & Ballantyne, 2006) *'' Aquatica wuhana'' Fu, Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2010 All of the species except ''A. wuhana'' were previously placed in ''

Luciola ''Luciola'' is a genus of "flashing" fireflies (family Lampyridae), especially well known from Japan. They are often called "Japanese fireflies", but their members range farther into Asia and reach southern Europe (Italy, France, Spain, Portuga ...

''. The larvae are aquatic, and the name is derived from the English word.

References

Lampyridae Lampyridae genera Bioluminescent insects {{firefly-stub