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Pollaclasis

Pollaclasis is a genus of fireflies in the beetle family Lampyridae. There is one described species in Pollaclasis, P. bifaria. Pollaclasis is most closely related to Pterotus, and may someday become included within the Pterotinae subfamily.

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Pollaclasis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Lampyridae
Genus: Pollaclasis
Newman, 1838

Pollaclasis is a genus of fireflies in the beetle family Lampyridae. There is one described species in Pollaclasis, P. bifaria.123 Pollaclasis is most closely related to Pterotus, and may someday become included within the Pterotinae subfamily.4

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  1. "Pollaclasis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. "Pollaclasis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. Martin, Gavin J; Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F; Branham, Marc A; Da Silveira, Luiz F L; Lower, Sarah E; Hall, David W; Li, Xue-Yan; Lemmon, Alan R; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily; Bybee, Seth M (2019-11-01). Jordal, Bjarte (ed.). "Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 3 (6). Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1093/isd/ixz024. ISSN 2399-3421.
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