Pyrophorus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elateroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Elateriformia Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Agrypninae
Tribus: Pyrophorini
Subtribus: Pyrophorina
Genus: Pyrophorus
Species: P. angustus – P. avunculus – P. canaliculatus – P. carinatus – P. clarus – P. cucujus – P. divergens – P. dulcifer – P. evexus – P. expeditus – P. foveolatus – P. ignigenus – P. indistinctus – P. indulcatus – P. ingens – P. jocundus – P. limbatus – P. lucidus – P. magnus – P. mellifluus – P. mellitus – P. mutatus – P. nigropunctatus – P. noctilucus – P. phosphorescens – P. pisticus – P. plagiophthalmus – P. punctatissimus – P. pyropoecilus – P. strabus – P. stupendus – P. tuberculifer – P. validus – P. veriloquus
Disputed Name: P. pellucens (?= P. noctilucus)
(List may be incomplete)

Name

Pyrophorus Billberg, 1820

Type species: Elater noctilucus Linnaeus, 1758 [≡ Pyrophorus noctilucus (Linnaeus, 1758)]; subsequently designated by Desmarest, 1860: 29.

Synonymy

Phosphorus Voet 1806: t. 43, fig. 17. Synonymy in Kundrata et al., 2019: 120. [unavailable name, work not consistently binominal (ICZN 1999, Art. 11.4)]. in considering the names in Voet's publication not consistently binominal, vide etiam e.g. Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999: 8.
Hedonius Gistel, 1834: 11. Synonymy in Kundrata et al., 2019: 120.
- Type species: Elater noctilucus Linnaeus, 1758; subsequently designated by Bousquet & Bouchard, 2017: 124. Junior objective synonym of Pyrophorus Billberg, 1820 (vide atiam Bousquet & Bouchard, loc. cit.).
Phyrophorus G.N.Wolcott 1936: 211. Synonymy in Kundrata et al., 2019: 120. [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling not in prevailing usage].

References

Primary references

Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. Stockholm, 138 pp. BHL Reference page. [see page 20]
Bousquet, Y. & Bouchard, P. 2017. Status of the new genera in Gistel’s “Die Insecten-Doubletten aus der Sammlung des Herrn Grafen Rudolph von Jenison Walworth” issued in 1834. ZooKeys 698: 113–145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.698.14913 . Reference page.
Desmarest, E.A.S.L. 1860. Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle ou traité complet de cette science d’après les travaux des naturalistes les plus éminents de tous les pays et de toutes les époques; Buffon, Daubenton, Lacépède, G Cuvier, F Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Latreille, de Jussieu, Brongniart, etc., etc. Ouvrage résumant les observations des auteurs anciens et comprenant toutes les découvertes modernes jusqu’à nos jours. Par le Dr Chenu. Coléoptères buprestiens, scarabéiens, piméliens, curculioniens, scolytiens, chrysoméliens, etc. Avec la collaboration de ME Desmarest, du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, secrétaire de la Société Entomologique de France, etc. Troisième partie. Librairie de Firmin-Didot, Paris, 360 pp.
Gistel, J.N.F.X. 1834. Die Insecten-Doubletten aus der Sammlung des Herrn Grafen Rudolph von Jenison Walworth zu Regensburg, welche sowohl im Kauf als im Tausche abgegeben werden. Nro. I. Käfer. München: George Jaquot. 35 + [1] pp. Google Books. Reference page.
Kundrata, R., Kubaczkova, M., Prosvirov, A.S., Douglas, H.B., Fojtikova, A., Costa, C., Bousquet, Y., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & Bouchard, P. 2019. World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.839.33279 . Reference page.
Voet, J.E. 1766–1806. Catalogus systematicus coleopterorum. Catalogue systématique des coléoptères. Systematische naamlijst van dat geslacht van insecten dat men torren noemt. Tomus I. Bakhuysen, Haag [= The Hague]. [2] + 104 [the last 8 pages incorrectly numbered 67–74] (Latin text) + 114 (French text) + 111 (Dutch text) pp., 55 pls. BHL. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.16105 . [Note: work is not consistently binominal]
Wolcott, G.N. 1936. "Insectae Boriquensis". The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20(1): 1–627. DOI: 10.46429/jaupr.v20i1.14347 . Reference page.

Additional references

Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & Lyal, C.H.C. 1999. A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp. PDF. Reference page.
Costa, C. 1975. Systematics and evolution of the tribes Pyrophorini and Heligmini, with description of Campyloxeninae, new subfamily (Coleoptera, Elateridae). Arquivos de Zoologia 26(2): 49–190. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v26i2p49-190 . ResearchGate . Reference page. [see pages 110–114]
Costa, C. 1980. Novas espécies dos gêneros Ignelater e Opselater [(]Coleoptera, Elateridae, Pyrophorinae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 33(7): 157–176. (Portuguese) DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.1980.33.p157-176 ResearchGate . Reference page.
Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58(2353): 621–680. DOI: 10.5479/si.00963801.2353.621 . BHL. Reference page. [see page 651]

Links

Pyrophorus. In: Catalogue of Life. Accessed: 23 September 2024.
Pyrophorus – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG). Accessed: 24 September 2024.
Pyrophorus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Accessed: 24 September 2024.

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