ADW: Photuris: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Protostomia (protostomes)
      - Ecdysozoa
        
        Arthropoda
        
        Class Insecta
        
        Order Coleoptera
        
        Superfamily Elateroidea
        
        Family Lampyridae (fireflies, glow worms, lightning bugs, lightningbugs)
        
        Genus Photuris
        
        Species Photuris aureolucens
        
        Species Photuris bethaniensis
        
        Species Photuris brunnipennis
        
        Species Photuris caerulucens
        
        Species Photuris cinctipennis
        
        Species Photuris congener
        
        Species Photuris divisa
        
        Species Photuris fairchildi
        
        Species Photuris frontalis
        
        Species Photuris hebes
        
        Species Photuris lineatocollis
        
        Species Photuris lucicrescens
        
        Species Photuris missouriensis
        
        Species Photuris pennsylvanica
        
        Species Photuris potomaca
        
        Species Photuris pyralomima
        
        Species Photuris salina
        
        Species Photuris tremulans
        
        Species Photuris trivittata
        
        Species Photuris versicolor

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To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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