Pyractomena borealis (Randall, 1828) is a animal in the Lampyridae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Pyractomena borealis (Randall, 1828)

Pyractomena borealis (Randall, 1828)

Pyractomena borealis, the Spring tree-top flasher, is a widely distributed North American firefly in the Lampyridae beetle family.

Family
Genus
Pyractomena
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Pyractomena borealis (Randall, 1828)

Pyractomena borealis, commonly called the Spring tree-top flasher, is a firefly species that belongs to the beetle family Lampyridae. This species is native to North America, where it has an extremely broad distribution. Its known range extends from Alberta eastward to Canada's Maritime Provinces, and southward to every U.S. state located east of the Mississippi River.

Photo: (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Lampyridae Pyractomena

More from Lampyridae

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

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