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 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 insu ...
, though at least some Lamprocerini
species
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are not
bioluminescent in the adult stage. They are generally
neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
, found in
North America 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
Lucio is an Italian and Spanish male given name derived from the Latin name ''Lucius''. In Portuguese, the given name is accented Lúcio.
Lucio is also an Italian surname.
Given name
* Lúcio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva) (born 1978), Brazilian ...
''
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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