Pyrophorini
| Pyrophorini | |
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| Ignelater luminosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Subfamily: | Agrypninae |
| Tribe: | Pyrophorini |
The Pyrophorini form a taxonomic tribe within the Elateridae (click beetle) subfamily Agrypninae.[1] Pyrophorini is a tribe of bioluminescent beetles, and includes such genera as Pyrophorus and Ignelater.
It is believed to be monophyletic.
The tribe Heligmini is very closely related to the Pyrophorini; the latter is exclusively bioluminescent, while the former has a complete absence of adult light organs and only a single species is known to be bioluminescent.[2]
Pyrophorini is not the exclusive tribe of bioluminescent click beetles. Tribe Euplinthini also contains bioluminescent species, as well as Campyloxenus pyrothorax (Chile) in the related subfamily Campyloxeninae.
Subtribes:
- Nyctophyxina (Earliest diverged subtribe)
- Hapsodrilina (2nd earlier diverged subtribe)
- Pyrophorina (Large subtribe that contains most of the Pyrophorini genera.)
References
- Costa, Cleide (1975). "Systematics and evolution of the tribes Pyrophorini and Heligmini, with description of Campyloxeninae, new subfamily (Coleoptera, Elateridae)". Arquivos de Zoologia. 26 (2): 49. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v26i2p49-190.
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- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel; Lawrence, John; Lyal, Christopher; Newton, Alfred; Reid, Chris; Schmitt, Michael; Slipinski, Adam; Smith, Andrew (2011). "Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. 88: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2970.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Rosa, Simone Policena; Costa, Cleide (2013). "Description of the larva of Alampoides alychnus (Kirsch, 1873), the first known species with bioluminescent immatures in Euplinthini (Elateridae, Agrypninae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo). 53 (22): 301–307. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013002200001. ISSN 0031-1049.