Pyrophorini

The Pyrophorini are a New World 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.

Pyrophorini
Ignelater luminosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Agrypninae
Tribe: Pyrophorini

It is believed to be monophyletic.

The former 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 (from Chile) in the related monotypic subfamily Campyloxeninae. The newly described Sinopyrophorinae represent the first bioluminescent click beetles known from Asia.[3]

Subtribes:

  • Nyctophyxina (Earliest diverged subtribe)
  • Hapsodrilina (2nd earlier diverged subtribe)
  • Pyrophorina (Large subtribe that contains most of the Pyrophorini genera.)

References
  1. 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. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  2. 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.
  3. Bi, Wen-Xuan; He, Jin-Wu; Chen, Chang-Chin; Kundrata, Robin; Li, Xue-Yan (2019-07-17). "Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers. 864: 79–97. doi:10.3897/zookeys.864.26689. ISSN 1313-2970.
  • 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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