Hyperstoma

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Hyperstoma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Lampyridae
Subfamily: Ototretinae
Genus: Hyperstoma
Wittmer, 1979
Type species
Hyperstoma marginata
Wittmer, 1979
Species

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Hyperstoma is a genus of firefly beetles in the family Lampyridae. [1] The genus was considered Monotypic until a second species was described in 2011. [2] The genus is endemic to Sri Lanka. [3]

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Taxonomy

The genus is closely related to the genera Lamellipalpus and Lamellipalpodes due to having fused terminal and penultimate terga. [4] [5] [6]

Description

Body length is about 5 to 5.5 mm. [4]

Species

References

  1. ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Hyperstoma". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  2. ↑ "Hyperstoma Wittmer, 1979". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  3. ↑ "Hyperstoma". zh.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  4. 1 2 "Review of the genus Hyperstoma (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)" (PDF). Zootaxa 2975: 64–68 (2011). Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  5. ↑ Janisova, Kristyna; Bocakova, Milada (2013-03-01). "Revision of the subfamily Ototretinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)" . Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 252: 1–19. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2012.01.001 . Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  6. ↑ "Phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily Ototretinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)" (PDF). muni.cz. Retrieved 2021-07-27.


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