Lampyrini

Taxobox
name = Lampyrini

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image_caption = Egg-laden female of "Lampyris noctiluca"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota
ordo = Coleoptera
subordo = Polyphaga
infraordo = Elateriformia
superfamilia = Elateroidea
familia = Lampyridae
subfamilia = Lampyrinae
tribus = Lampyrini
tribus_authority = Latreille, 1817Verify source|date=September 2007
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = 7, see text
synonyms = Pleotomini

The Lampyrini are a tribe of fireflies in the large subfamily Lampyrinae. The lineage formerly separated as Pleotomini seems to be a specialized offshoot of the Lampyrini not too distant from the type genus "Lampyris" and is therefore included here. This tribe occurs throughout the Holarctic and contains the typical "glowing" or "continuous-light" fireflies from that region. Some otherwise very advanced Lampyrini, like species in "Paraphausis" and "Pyrocoelia", have degenerated light-producing organs again and communicate primarily or even exclusively with pheromones like the ancestors of the fireflies did.Stanger-Hall "et al." (2007)] .

elected genera

The validity of several genera and the delimitation of others (such as "Diaphanes" and "Pyrocoelia") is in need of review.

* "Diaphanes"
* "Lampyris"
* "Lychnuris"
* "Microphotus" LeConte, 1866
* "Nyctophila"
* "Paraphausis" Green, 1948
* "Pelania"
* "Pleotomodes" Green, 1948
* "Pleotomus" LeConte, 1861
* "Pyrocoelia"

Some of the Cratomorphini – maybe an entirely paraphyletic assemblage – might also belong here, e.g. "Aspisoma".

Footnotes

References

* (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 (HTML abstract)