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Lampyris noctiluca

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Florida State Collection of Arthropods Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services P. O. Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100

Description

Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cantharis noctiluca Linnaeus 1758: 400.

Remarks. This species was published in Linnaeus (1758) in the genus Cantharis and moved to Lampyris by Linnaeus (1767: 643). This species was not newly described in 1767 as published in the vast majority of firefly literature.

Notes

Published as part of Keller, Oliver, 2022, On the firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) species of Carl Linnaeus, pp. 1-5 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (962) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7616579

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Lampyridae
Genus
Lampyris
Species
noctiluca
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Keller, 2022

References

  • Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus 1. Editio Decima, Reformata. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii; Stockholm, Sweden. 824 p.
  • Linnaeus C. 1767. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Pars II. Editio Duodecima, Reformata. Impensis Direct. Laur. Salvii; Stockholm, Sweden. 794 p.