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Pleotomus  LeConte, 1861
Taxonomic Serial No.: 722416

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderElateriformia Crowson, 1960  
                                        SuperfamilyElateroidea Leach, 1815  
                                           FamilyLampyridae Rafinesque, 1815 – fireflies, lightningbugs, glow worms, lightning bugs  
                                              SubfamilyLampyrinae Rafinesque, 1815  
                                                 TribePleotomini Summers, 1874  
                                                    GenusPleotomus LeConte, 1861  
    Direct Children:  
                                                       Species Pleotomus cerinus Zaragoza-Caballero, 2002  
                                                       Species Pleotomus emmiltos Zaragoza-Caballero, 2002  
                                                       Species Pleotomus nigripennis LeConte, 1885  
                                                       Species Pleotomus pallens LeConte, 1866  
       

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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, version 2.1, database (version 2.1)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2025). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, v2.1 (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchard, Patrice, Yves Bousquet, Anthony E. Davies, and Chenyang Cai  
  Publication Date: 2024   
  Article/Chapter Title: On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 1194   
  Page(s): 1-981   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2970   
  Notes: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lloyd, James E. / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family 62. Lampyridae Latreille 1817   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea   
  Page(s): 187-196   
  Publisher: CRC Press LLC   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8493-0954-9   
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  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Martin, Gavin J., Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Marc A. Branham, Luiz F. L. Da Silveira et al.  
  Publication Date: 2019   
  Article/Chapter Title: Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Insect Systematics and Diversity, vol. 3, issue 6   
  Page(s): 1-15   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2399-3421   
  Notes: remaining authors: X. Lui, A. R. Lemmon, E. M. Lemmon, and S. M. Bybee. Corrections to publicaton online 17 December, 2019   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Santiago Zaragoza-Caballero, and Alberto Romo-Galicia  
  Publication Date: 2022   
  Article/Chapter Title: Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 5092, no. 3   
  Page(s): 291-317   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Zaragoza-Caballero, S., S. López-Pérez, M. González-Ramírez, G. M. Rodríguez-Mirón, and et al.  
  Publication Date: 2024   
  Article/Chapter Title: Luciérnagas de la región golfo-Caribe de México y descripción de 16 especies nuevas   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol. 95, e955476   
  Page(s): 1-43   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2007-8706   
  Notes: doi: 10.22201/ib.20078706e.2024.95.5476   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Sara López-Pérez, Viridiana Vega-Badillo et al.  
  Publication Date: 2020   
  Article/Chapter Title: Fireflies from central Mexico (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): description of 37 new species   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, vol. 91, e913104   
  Page(s): 1-70   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 2007-8706   
  Notes: remaining authors: , Daniel E. Domínguez-León, Geovanni M. Rodríguez-Mirón, Mireya González-Ramírez, Ishwari G. Gutiérrez-Carranza, Paulina Cifuentes-Ruiz, and Martín L. Zurita-García   
  Reference for: Pleotomus   
       

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