Photinus cookii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Elateroidea
Family:
Lampyridae
Subfamily:
Lampyrinae
Tribe:
Lucidotini
Genus:
Photinus
Species:
P. cookii
Binomial name
Photinus cookii
Green, 1956

Photinus cookii is a species of firefly in the beetle family Lampyridae. [1] It is found in North America in the Eastern USA, including Florida and Texas.[2][3][4]

Etymology

The species was first described by John Wagener Green in 1956.[5] The species is named as an honorific for Mr. Carl Cook, who had collected the holotype male and other specimens in Carilhope, Kentucky, 11-VII-1946. The species name is therefore noun in genitive case.

Several years later Lloyd (1966) [6] published an overview of Photinus in USA, and wrote the name as "Photinus cooki" (i.e. altering the ending to a single "i" as "cooki"), perhaps considering it as a correction; but per nomenclatural regulations in ICZN 31.1, the original spelling of "cookii" is admissible and therefore it is subsequently retained.

References

  1. ↑ "Photinus cookii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ↑ "Photinus cookii". GBIF. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Photinus_cookii". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  4. ↑ Green, J.W. (1956). "Revision of the Nearctic species of Photinus (Lampyridae: Coleoptera)" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth. 28 (15): 561–613. ISSN 0068-547X.
  5. ↑ Lloyd, J.E. (1966). "Studies on the Flash Communication System in Photinus Fireflies". Miscellaneous publications (University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology) (130): 1–95.

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