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Photinus stellaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lampyridae
Genus: Photinus
Species:
P. stellaris
Binomial name
Photinus stellaris
Fall, 1927

Photinus stellaris is a species in the family Lampyridae ("fireflies"), in the suborder Polyphaga ("water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles"). [1] [2] [3] It is found in North America. [2]

References

  1. ^ "Photinus stellaris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  2. ^ a b "Photinus stellaris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  3. ^ "Photinus stellaris Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-20.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • McDermott, F. A. / Steel, W. O., ed. (1966). "Lampyridae". Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 9, 149.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.