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Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)

Observer

finatic

Date

August 20, 2017 06:06 PM PDT

Description

Cochise County, Arizona, US

anna_walker's ID: Sprinkled Firefly (Ellychnia irrorata)
Added on March 6, 2024
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Winter Firefly (Ellychnia corrusca)

Observer

sean_c

Date

March 23, 2022 12:42 PM MST

Description

on boulder

Winter Firefly - Photo (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY)
anna_walker's ID: Winter Firefly (Ellychnia corrusca)
Added on March 6, 2024
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Pecos Desert Firefly (Microphotus pecosensis)

Observer

jhsudduth

Date

May 21, 2020 07:55 PM MDT

Description

Colorado Fireflies

I think this is a first for us, and I did not know that fireflies even existed in Colorado. One evening we looked down on the sidewalk outside the front door of our cabin outside of Florissant Colorado, 8872 altitude, and noticed something glowing. It turns out that this is the female, of the fire fly “Microphotus pecosensis” sometimes called the Mountain glow worm. It does not have wings, but does glow as observed in our picture. The biology of the western glow worms is poorly understood. There are several species. The female is wingless with a large light organ on the tip of the abdomen. The male is winded but non-luminous although young males may show some light from larval light organs.

Pecos Desert Firefly - Photo (c) jzat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jzat
anna_walker's ID: Pecos Desert Firefly (Microphotus pecosensis)
Added on March 2, 2024
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sshowalter

Date

October 3, 2021 10:36 AM MDT
Pleotomus nigripennis - Photo (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by C. Mallory
anna_walker's ID: Pleotomus nigripennis, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on March 1, 2024
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California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus)

Observer

wildwingsecology

Date

May 18, 2022 10:56 PM PDT
California Pink Glowworm - Photo (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
anna_walker's ID: California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus)
Added on February 28, 2024
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Observer

mpuffer

Date

July 2, 2022 11:39 PM MDT
Pleotomus - Photo (c) Mike Quinn, Austin, TX, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, Austin, TX
anna_walker's ID: Genus Pleotomus, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on February 28, 2024
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Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)

Observer

duanedyer

Date

August 3, 2021 12:46 PM MDT
Diurnal Fireflies - Photo (c) Matthew O'Donnell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
anna_walker's ID: Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Observer

snurm

Date

July 29, 2023 11:05 AM MDT

Place

Highland (Google, OSM)
Dark Firefly - Photo (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey
anna_walker's ID: Dark Firefly (Pyropyga nigricans)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)

Observer

maxbird1

Date

July 16, 2022 09:15 AM MST

Description

Possibly alexanderi?

Diurnal Fireflies - Photo (c) Matthew O'Donnell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
anna_walker's ID: Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Sprinkled Firefly (Ellychnia irrorata)

Observer

jacksonfrost

Date

July 14, 2022 04:37 PM MST
anna_walker's ID: Sprinkled Firefly (Ellychnia irrorata)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)

Observer

victoriathaxton

Date

June 4, 2022 01:29 PM MDT
Alexander's Firefly - Photo (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by C. Mallory
anna_walker's ID: Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)

Observer

marissaharrison

Date

May 17, 2020 01:19 PM MDT
Alexander's Firefly - Photo (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by C. Mallory
anna_walker's ID: Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)

Observer

csonafrank

Date

July 1, 2018 09:23 AM MDT
Diurnal Fireflies - Photo (c) Matthew O'Donnell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
anna_walker's ID: Diurnal Fireflies (Genus Ellychnia)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)

Observer

empo

Date

July 7, 2022 01:29 PM MDT
Alexander's Firefly - Photo (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by C. Mallory
anna_walker's ID: Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)
Added on February 27, 2024
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Desert Firefly (Microphotus octarthrus)

Observer

entomike

Date

April 15, 2015

Description

Det. B. Pfeiffer, 2016
coll'ed at UV lights, during Entoblitz_2015
spmn in the TAMUIC

Tags

Desert Firefly - Photo (c) Mike Quinn, Austin, TX, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, Austin, TX
anna_walker's ID: Desert Firefly (Microphotus octarthrus)
Added on February 24, 2024
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Desert Firefly (Microphotus octarthrus)

Observer

entomike

Date

June 13, 2005

Description

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2016
coll'ed A. Hook
spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

Tags

Desert Firefly - Photo (c) Mike Quinn, Austin, TX, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, Austin, TX
anna_walker's ID: Desert Firefly (Microphotus octarthrus)
Added on February 24, 2024
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Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)

Observer

joshuaverde

Date

August 2, 2021 06:57 PM MDT
Alexander's Firefly - Photo (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by C. Mallory
anna_walker's ID: Alexander's Firefly (Ellychnia alexanderi)
Added on February 20, 2024
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Fireflies (Family Lampyridae)

Observer

carlospalomera

Date

August 20, 2023 06:40 PM CST
Fireflies - Photo (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY)
anna_walker's ID: Fireflies (Family Lampyridae)
Added on February 14, 2024
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Fireflies (Family Lampyridae)

Observer

kimoyawright

Date

September 26, 2023 08:10 PM EST
Fireflies - Photo (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY)
anna_walker's ID: Fireflies (Family Lampyridae)
Added on February 14, 2024
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Observer

tomkennedy

Date

July 3, 2009 03:42 AM MDT
Discodon - Photo (c) Jay Keller, all rights reserved, uploaded by Jay Keller
anna_walker's ID: Genus Discodon, a member of Soldier Beetles (Family Cantharidae)
Added on February 14, 2024
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Observer

hydapse

Date

June 14, 2020 01:27 PM MDT

Description

Firefly (Genus Pyractomena)

Pyractomena - Photo (c) John and Kendra Abbott, all rights reserved, uploaded by John and Kendra Abbott
anna_walker's ID: Genus Pyractomena, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on February 10, 2024
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Date

June 26, 2023 08:02 PM MDT
Pyractomena - Photo (c) John and Kendra Abbott, all rights reserved, uploaded by John and Kendra Abbott
anna_walker's ID: Genus Pyractomena, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on February 10, 2024
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California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus)

Observer

danielmorton

Date

August 18, 2016 07:22 PM EDT
Insects - Photo (c) Graham Winterflood, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Graham Winterflood
anna_walker's ID: Insects (Class Insecta)
Added on February 8, 2024
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Mountain Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus xanthus)

Observer

anneepierce

Date

May 22, 2023 12:57 PM MDT

Description

Seems smaller than a common checkered skipper

Mountain Checkered-Skipper - Photo (c) Christine Hass, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Christine Hass
anna_walker's ID: Mountain Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus xanthus)
Added on February 1, 2024
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Mountain Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus xanthus)

Observer

mjandersen

Date

July 6, 2023 10:57 AM MDT

Description

Worn, late-flying individual

Mountain Checkered-Skipper - Photo (c) Christine Hass, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Christine Hass
anna_walker's ID: Mountain Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus xanthus)
Added on February 1, 2024
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Chiricahua Glow-Worm (Microphotus chiricahuae)

Observer

cotinis

Date

May 22, 2023 01:06 AM MST

Description

A friend found this glowing on the ground near a building in the evening while we were looking for owls with a guide. The (very knowledgeable) guide and I thought it was a glow worm, Phengodidae, but this opinion was corrected on BugGuide. It is a...
Firefly - genus Microphotus (6 North American spp., 13 mm, apparently adult female, which is larviform in this genus)
Updated ID and caption 9/10/23, based on BugGuide comments and range from Green (1959).
Microphotus chiricahuae Green, 1959 (adult female, 13 mm)
Also posted at:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2251916
See discussion on BugGuide for ID notes, summarized below.

References

  • BugGuide species page (Microphotus chiricahuae) https://bugguide.net/node/view/2293869
  • Evans, Beetles of Western North America (Princeton Univ. Press, 2021), p. 263 (M. angustus male); p. 22, fig. 8d (larviform female of Microphotus)
  • Green, Revision of the Species of Microphotus, with an Emendation of the Lampyrini (Lampyridae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sep., 1959), pp. 80-96 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3998947)

Quoting comments on BugGuide:
"This is an adult female of Microphotus pecosensis or M chiricahuae, can't know which yet, but note the clavate antennae that occurs in both species.... Note the retractile head and undifferentiated dorsum in the leading picture...these are adjectively larval characters, but the tarsi with segments and two claws, and antennae with scape, pedicel, flagellomeres, are adult characters... these features figure in critically toward understanding larviforms. (joeCicero)"
Range quoted in Green's description of the species indicates that only chiricahuae is found at this locale, not pecosensis.

Microphotus - Photo (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey
anna_walker's ID: Genus Microphotus, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on January 23, 2024
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California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus)

Observer

euproserpinus

Date

May 18, 2022 10:04 PM PDT
California Pink Glowworm - Photo (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
anna_walker's ID: California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus)
Added on November 11, 2023
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Observer

ardoman2013

Date

August 2022

Description

Very small, butt end of the worm glowed a bright yellow-green.

Microphotus - Photo (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey
anna_walker's ID: Genus Microphotus, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on November 11, 2023
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Observer

theronblunck

Date

June 9, 2023 09:52 PM MST

Place

Portal (Google, OSM)

Description

Some kind of glow worm

Microphotus - Photo (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey
anna_walker's ID: Genus Microphotus, a member of Typical Fireflies (Subfamily Lampyrinae)
Added on November 11, 2023
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Dilated Glow-Worm (Microphotus dilatatus)

Observer

mjplagens

Date

August 22, 2022 07:39 PM MST
Dilated Glow-Worm - Photo (c) Jacob Simon, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jacob Simon
anna_walker's ID: Dilated Glow-Worm (Microphotus dilatatus)
Added on November 11, 2023
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