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Photuris femoralis Curtis 1839

Description

P. femoralis Curtis, 1839 (Figure 5 E)

Differential diagnosis. Antennomere III as long as pedicel; median labral tooth as developed as lateral teeth. Epipleura short. Pronotal disc yellow to orangish, lytral disc brown, pronotal and elytron margins pale-yellow. This species was recently reviewed by Souto et al. (2019).

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 300, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1749323, http://zenodo.org/record/5021064

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References

  • Souto PM, Campello L, Khattar G, Mermudes JRM, Monteiro RFM, Silveira LFL. 2019. How to design a predatory firefly? Lessons from the Photurinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Zool Anz. 278: 1 - 13.