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Amydetes Illiger 1807
Description
Amydetes Illiger, 1807 (Figure 3 A)
Amydetes is characterised by the presence of an antenna with more than 20 antennomeres, a remarkable feature among insects (Minelli 2017), and a row of dense bristles in the metacoxa (Silveira and Mermudes 2014a). The complex antenna, which is allometric and very often asymmetric (Nunes et al. 2020), likely helps males in finding sessile, probably flightless females, but the latter remain unknown. The genus was recently reviewed by Silveira and Mermudes (2014a) showing a diversity of circadian habits across species – some are diurnal, others nocturnal. All species, diurnal or nocturnal, glow with a green, bluish-green light (Viviani 2001; LS pers. obs.). Females and immature stages unknown.
Notes
Published as part of Silveira, Luiz F L, Khattar, Gabriel, Vaz, Stephanie, Wilson, Vinicius A., Souto, Paula M., Mermudes, José R. M., Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F., Macedo, Margarete V. & Monteiro, Ricardo F., 2020, Natural history of the fireflies of the Serra dos Órgãos mountain range (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro) - one of the ' hottest' firefly spots on Earth, with a key to genera (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 275-308 in Journal of Natural History 54 (5 - 6) on page 288, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1749323, http://zenodo.org/record/5021064
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5021074 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1749323 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5021064 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B454FFB5FFA2FFCD0F3CBF11C245FFAB (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/486D87CDFFACFFC30E93BA91C168F914 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lampyridae
- Genus
- Amydetes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Illiger
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amydetes Illiger, 1807 sec. Silveira, Khattar, Vaz, Wilson, Souto, Mermudes, Stanger-Hall, Macedo & Monteiro, 2020
References
- Minelli A. 2017. The insect antenna: segmentation, patterning and positional homology. J Entomol Acarol Res. 49 (1): 6680.
- Silveira LFL, Mermudes JRM. 2014 a. Systematic review of the firefly genus Amydetes Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with description of 13 new species. Zootaxa. 3765 (3): 201 - 248.
- Nunes VCS, Souto PM, Minelli A, Stanger-Hall K, Silveira LFL. 2020. Antennomere numbers in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): unique patterns and tentative explanations. Zool Anz. 286: 1 - 10.
- Viviani VR. 2001. Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Southeastern Brazil: habitats, life history, and bioluminescence. Ann Entomol Soc Am. 94 (1): 129 - 145.