Lampyrinae

Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Lampyrinae

Male adult of Lamprigera yunnana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Lampyridae
Subfamily:  | Lampyrinae
Rafinesque, 1815
Tribes

* Cratomorphini
* Lamprocerini
* Lampyrini
* Photinini
* Pleotomini

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 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 as well. The ancestral Lampyrinae probably had no or very primitive light signals; in any case several modern lineages appear to have returned to the pheromone communication of their ancestors independently.[1]

## Systematics

The group has recently been examined using molecular phylogenetics, using fairly comprehensive sampling.[2]

## References

1. ↑ Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F.; Lloyd, James E. & Hillis, David M. (2007): Phylogeny of North American fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Implications for the evolution of light signals. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(1): 33-49. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.013 PMID 17644427 PDF fulltext
2. ↑ Martin, Gavin J.; Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F.; Branham, Marc A. et al. (1 November 2019). Jordal, Bjarte. ed. "Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)". Insect Systematics and Diversity (Oxford University Press )) 3 (6). doi:10.1093/isd/ixz024.

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