Paraphotinus

Paraphotinus is a genus of central American fireflies (first described as a subgenus),[1] distinguished from the closely related Photinus by the presence of ventral branches in their aedeagal parameres.[2] It was recently elevated to genus level.[3]

Paraphotinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lampyridae
Tribe: Photinini
Genus: Paraphotinus
Zaragoza-Caballero, 1995[1]

Species list
  • Paraphotinus aulophallus Zaragoza-Caballero y Gutiérrez-Carranza, 2018
  • Paraphotinus furcatus Zaragoza-Caballero, 2000
  • Paraphotinus tlapacoyaensis Zaragoza-Caballero, 1996
  • Paraphotinus tuxtlaensis Zaragoza-Caballero, 1995[1]
  • Paraphotinus victori Zaragoza-Caballero, 2020[3]

References
  1. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago (1995). La familia Lampyridae (Coleoptera) en la Estación de Biología Tropical "Los Tuxtlas", Veracruz, México. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Biología, Publicaciones Especiales 14. pp. 1–93.
  2. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago (2007-04-02). "A new species of Photinus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photinini) from Jalisco, Mexico, with comments on intraspecific aedeagal variability and a key to the species of the subgenus Paraphotinus". Zootaxa. 1437 (1): 61–67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1437.1.5 (inactive 28 February 2022). ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 2021-04-12.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2022 (link)
  3. Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago; López-Pérez, Sara; Vega-Badillo, Viridiana; Domínguez-León, Daniel E.; Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M.; González-Ramírez, Mireya; Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G.; Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina; Zurita-García, Martín L. (2020-02-13). "Luciérnagas del centro de México (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): descripción de 37 especies nuevas". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 91. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3104. ISSN 2007-8706. S2CID 213941088.
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