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Pyropyga Motschulsky, 1852

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Motschulsky, Victor de. 1853. Lampyrides. Etudes entomologiques, rédigées par Victor de Motschulsky 1: 25-58.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Lampyridae
genus
Pyropyga

Name

Synonyms
Lucidota Olivier, 1907
Homonyms
Pyropyga Motschulsky, 1852

Bibliographic References

  1. Green JW (1961) Revision of the species of Pyropyga (Lampyridae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 15: 65-74.
  2. Green, John Wagener, 1961: Revision of the species of Pyropyga (Lampyridae). The Coleopterists' Bulletin, vol. 15, no. 3. 65-74.
  3. Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012).
  4. Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012).
  5. Keller, O.; Branham, M. A. (2021). A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4970(1): 53-105. 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.1.2
  6. Lloyd, James E. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds., 2002: Family 62. Lampyridae Latreille 1817. American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 187-196.
  7. Martin, Gavin J., Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Marc A. Branham, Luiz F. L. Da Silveira et al., 2019: Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 3, issue 6. 1-15.
  8. Motschulsky, V. de. (1853). Lampyrides. <em>Études Entomologiques.</em> 1(2): 25-58 [1852].
  9. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  10. Viana, Jéssica Herzog, André Silva Roza, Stephanie Vaz, Gareth Powell, and et al., 2025: A new firefly genus from South America, with seven new species, a new combination, and notes on the phylogeny of Lampyrinae: Lucidotini (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). PeerJ, vol. 13, e18967. 1-34.
  11. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Sara López-Pérez, Mireya González-Ramírez, and et al., 2023: Luciérnagas (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) del norte-occidente de México, con la descripción de 48 especies nuevas. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol 94. 1-81.
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