Pyractomena Melsheimer

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2021, A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies, Zootaxa 4970 (1), pp. 53-105 : 60

Pyractomena Melsheimer

Pyractomena Melsheimer 1846: 304

Pyractomena Motschulsky, 1853: 37 syn. [E. Olivier 1899b: 371]

Lecontea E. Olivier 1899b: 371 syn. [ Leng & Mutchler 1922: 452]

TYPE SPECIES: Pyractomena lucifera Melsheimer, 1846

KEYS: Barber 1941; McDermott & Buck 1959

LITERATURE: Motschulsky 1853: 37–38; Motschulsky 1854b: 38; Jacquelin du Val 1857: 85–86; Gemminger & de Harold 1869: 1642, 1644; Gorham 1880a: 25, 32–33; Stahl 1882b: 171; Gundlach 1891: 251–252; Olivier 1899a: 88, 91; E. Olivier 1907: 31; E. Olivier 1910: 24–25; E. Olivier 1912b: 23–24; Holland & Schwarz 1917: 338; Leng & Mutchler 1914: 432; Leng & Mutchler 1922: 453–454, 457–459; Mutchler 1923a: 12–13; Mutchler 1923b: 1; Wolcott 1923: 81 –82; Wolcott 1936: 202 –203; Barber 1941: 4, 11–12; Beatty 1944: 136; Blackwelder 1945: 355, 357–358; Wolcott 1948: 283 –284; McDermott & Buck 1959: 5 –6,18, 85; Seliger et al. 1964a: 162–163; Seliger et al. 1964b: 96, 103; McDermott 1966: 34; Lloyd 1969: 175; Miskimen & Bond 1970: 85; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974: R56.2–R56.3, R56.6, R56.8; Wetherbee 1985: 11, 14; Peck 2005: 114; Branham 2006: 50; Kazantsev 2007: 367–368, 372, 389–390; Kazantsev 2008: 101, 103; Perez-Gelabert 2008: 101; Turnbow & Thomas 2008: 42; Kazantsev & Perez-Gelabert 2009: 367–368, 375–376, 400–401; Perez-Gelabert 2011b: 129; Thomas et al. 2013: 35

JAMAICA: ( Seliger et al. 1964b)

REMARKS: Date of Melsheimer description corrected by Keller & Branham (2018a); Erroneously treated under Pyractonema [sic] by Perez-Gelabert (2020)

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