Photinus signaticollis (Blanchard, 1846) is a animal in the Lampyridae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Photinus signaticollis (Blanchard, 1846)

Photinus signaticollis (Blanchard, 1846)

Photinus signaticollis is a firefly native to Argentina and Uruguay, now also found in northeastern Iberian Peninsula.

Family
Genus
Photinus
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Photinus signaticollis (Blanchard, 1846)

Photinus signaticollis is a firefly species originally native to Argentina and Uruguay. In 2018, populations of this firefly were observed in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. At the time of this observation, the Iberian Peninsula population was incorrectly classified as a new species, named Photinus immigrans. In 2022, researchers confirmed that this Iberian Peninsula population actually belongs to the already described species Photinus signaticollis.

Photo: (c) Lucas Rubio, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Lucas Rubio · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Lampyridae Photinus

More from Lampyridae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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