Global InformationEllychnia corrusca information
| Ellychnia corrusca | |
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Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Coleoptera
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| Suborder: | Polyphaga
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| Family: | Lampyridae
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| Subfamily: | Lampyrinae
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| Genus: | Ellychnia
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| Species: | E. corrusca
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| Binomial name | |
| Ellychnia corrusca Linnaeus, 1767
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Ellychnia corrusca, or winter firefly,[2] is a species of firefly in the genus Ellychnia.[3] It is a lantern-less diurnal beetle common in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The adults spend winter on a colony tree, favoring Quercus (oak), Carya (hickory), and Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar).[2]
This beetle can be found in a large variety of habitats but is most notoriously known as a pest. In the maple syrup business, these beetles are commonly found in the buckets of sap from tapped trees.[4]
- ^ Fallon, C. (2021). "Ellychnia corrusca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T164013862A166771263. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T164013862A166771263.en. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ a b Lynn Frierson Faust (1 March 2017). Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs: Identification and Natural History of the Fireflies of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada. University of Georgia Press. pp. 73–77. ISBN 978-0-8203-4872-8.
- ^ "Ellychnia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
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