Photinus Laporte, 1833

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2021, A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies, Zootaxa 4970 (1), pp. 53-105 : 79

Photinus Laporte

Photinus Laporte 1833: 141

Ellipolampis Motschulsky 1853: 36 syn. [ Lacordaire 1857: 321]

Lamprodes Motschulsky 1853: 39 syn. [ Lacordaire 1857: 321]

TYPE SPECIES: Lampyris pallens Fabricius, 1798

KEYS: Leng & Mutchler 1922; Barber 1941; Paulian 1947; McDermott & Buck 1959; Constantin 2012

LITERATURE: Fabricius 1798: 124; Fabricius 1801: 103; Gyllenhal 1817a: 63; Sahlberg 1823: 3–4; Gosse 1848: 268–269; Gosse 1851: 103–105; Motschulsky 1853: 36–37, 39–40; Motschulsky 1854b: 35; Lacordaire 1857: 321; Gemminger & de Harold 1859: 1642–1644; Gorham 1881: 42–43; E. Olivier 1888: 56–57; Fleutiaux & Sallé 1889: 416; Gorham 1898: 320; E. Olivier 1902: 319; E. Olivier 1907: 34–36, 38; E. Olivier 1909b: 123–124; E. Olivier 1910: 27–30; Lund 1911: 417, 421–422, 424, 427–429, 432, 439, 449, 452–453, 457, 464–467; E. Olivier 1912b: 27–31, 33–34; Leng & Mutchler 1914: 432; Leng & Mutchler 1922; Mutchler 1923b: 1, 5–7; Gowdey 1926: 12–13; Miller 1935: 590; Buck 1937: 801; Barber 1941: 2–11; Buck 1941: 15, 17, 19; Buck 1942: 124–129; Blackwelder 1945: 357–359; Buck 1947: 60–70, 78–79; Paulian 1947: 160–161; McDermott 1952b; 166; McDermott 1953: 89; McDermott 1958: 23–25; McDermott & Buck 1959: 3–7, 9–12, 14–22, 25–30, 32–63, 67, 70, 72, 74–75, 81–84, 88–89, 93–102, 104–112; McDermott 1961: 116; Zahl 1962: 48–59; McDermott 1966: 35–48; Seliger et al. 1964a: 161–170; Seliger et al. 1964b: 96–97, 101–103; McDermott 1966: 35–48; Lloyd 1969: 169–175; Drewry 1970: E-138; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974: R56.7–R56.11; Pinto et al. 1983: 11; Chalumeau 1985: 149–150; Lloyd 1998: 261–272; Peck 2005: 115; Branham 2006: 49; Kazantsev 2007: 89–90; Peck 2006: 186; Turnbow & Thomas 2008: 42; Ivie 2009: 96; Peck 2011b: 22; Constantin 2012: 14–17, 22–25; Touroult & Poirier 2012: 30, 34, 38, 40, 48; Touroult et al. 2013: 23, 28–29, 49; Peck et al. 2014: 58; Touroult et al. 2014: 28, 34, 37, 42, 50; Touroult et al. 2015: 33, 70; Meurgey & Ramage 2020: 80

PUERTO RICO: ( Estrada-Pinto 1983)

ST. LUCIA: ( Ivie 2009)

REMARKS: Photinus records for Puerto Rico by Estrada-Pinto (1983) mis-identifications, most likely Robopus .

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