Aspisoma physonotum is a species of firefly from the genus Aspisoma. The species were originally described by Henry Stephen Gorham in 1884.
| Aspisoma physonotum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Lampyridae |
| Genus: | Aspisoma |
| Species: | A. physonotum
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| Binomial name | |
| Aspisoma physonotum (Gorham, 1884)
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A. physontum are found predominatly in Brazil,[1][2] as well as Colombia and Ecuador. They are pale green in colour.[3]
References
edit- ^ Viviani, Vadim (2001). "Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Southeastern Brazil: Habitats, Life History, and Bioluminescence". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94. Entomological Society of America: 129-145. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0129:FCLFSB]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86345143.
- ^ Santos, Raphael M.; Schlindwein, Marcelo Nivert; Viviani, Vadim R. (2016). "Survey of Bioluminescent Coleoptera in the Atlantic Rain Forest of Serra da Paranapiacaba in São Paulo State (Brazil)". Biota Neotropica. 16. doi:10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2015-0045.
- ^ McDermott, Frank A. (1964). "The Taxonomy of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 90 (1). American Entomological Society: 57. JSTOR 25077867.
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