Photuris Dejean, 1833

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2021, A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies, Zootaxa 4970 (1), pp. 53-105 : 56

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TYPE SPECIES: Lampyris versicolor Fabricius, 1798

KEYS: Leng & Mutchler 1922

LITERATURE: Laporte 1833: 144; Gosse 1848: 268–269; Gosse 1851: 103–105; Jacquelin du Val 1857: 89; Lacordaire 1857: 323, 339; Gemminger & de Harold 1869: 1653; Gorham 1880b: 105, 110–111; Gorham 1881: 59–60; Stahl 1882b: 171; Gundlach 1891: 253; Gorham 1898: 320; E. Olivier 1886: 235–236; E. Olivier 1907: 58; E. Olivier 1910: 51; Lund 1911: 417, 421–422; E. Olivier 1912b: 34; Leng & Mutchler 1914: 432; Leng & Mutchler 1922: 481–485; Mutchler 1923b: 7; Barber 1941: 4, 12; Buck 1941: 17, 19; Buck 1942: 125, 127–129; Blackwelder 1945: 361; Buck 1947: 62; McDermott 1952a: 94; McDermott 1952b: 166–167; McDermott 1962: 21; Seliger et al. 1964a: 162, 166–169; Seliger et al. 1964b: 97, 103; Mc Dermott 1966: 89–92; Lloyd 1969: 170–171, 175; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974: R56.12–R56.13; Peck 2005: 115; Branham 2006: 51; Kazantsev 2007: 89–90; Turnbow & Thomas 2008: 42; Ivie 2009: 96; Madruga & de Armas 2019: 265

ST. LUCIA: ( Ivie 2009)

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