Photinus stellaris is a species of firefly in the family Lampyridae, which belongs to suborder Polyphaga -a group that includes water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf and snout beetles. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. McDermott, F. A. / Steel, W. O., ed. (1966). "Lampyridae". Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa, pars 9, 149. Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Photinus stellaris