Vesta thoracica, Olivier, 1790

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), Journal of Natural History 54 (5 - 6), pp. 275-308 : 303

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2020.1749323

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/486D87CD-FFBF-FFD0-0EA1-BA4FC069FA60

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Carolina

scientific name

Vesta thoracica
status

 

V. thoracica Olivier, 1790 View in CoL ( Figure 3 F View Figure 3 )

This is the only Vesta species known to occur in Brazil; thus, the generic diagnosis is sufficient to determine the species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lampyridae

Genus

Vesta

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