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The type species of Luciola Laporte, 1833 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae)

  • 1. School of Agricultural Environmental and Veterinary Science, Charles Sturt University, PO Box 588, Wagga Wagga 2678 (Australia)
  • 2. School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor (Malaysia)
  • 3. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha, Suchdol 165 00 (Czech Republic)
  • 4. Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group (COBIG2), Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande 016, 1749-016, Lisbon (Portugal) Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia do Organismo e Evolução, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 5. Biology Department, Western Carolina University, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee, NC 28723 (United States)

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Ballantyne, Lesley, Jusoh, Wan F. A., Novák, Martin, Nunes, Viviane, Da Silveira, Luiz F. L. (2025): The type species of Luciola Laporte, 1833 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae). Zoosystema 47 (7): 105-123, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a7, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a7.pdf

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