The Pyrophorini are a New World taxonomic tribe within the Elateridae (click beetle) subfamily Agrypninae.Kundrata R, Kubaczkova M, Prosvirov AS, Douglas HB, Fojtikova A, Costa C, Bousquet Y, Alonso-Zarazaga MA, Bouchard P (2019) World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.839.33279 Pyrophorini is a tribe of bioluminescent beetles, and includes such genera as Pyrophorus and Ignelater.
It is believed to be monophyletic.
The tribe Anaissini is very closely related to the Pyrophorini (it includes species formerly placed in Pyrophorini); the latter is exclusively bioluminescent, while the former has only some species that are known to be bioluminescent. Another bioluminescent lineage is Campyloxenus pyrothorax (from Chile) in the related monotypic subfamily Campyloxeninae. The Sinopyrophoridae were thought to represent the first bioluminescent elaterids known from Asia, but actually are a newly-recognized bioluminescent beetle family.
Genera Cryptolampros Costa, 1975 Deilelater Costa, 1975 Fulgeochlizus Costa, 1975 Hapsodrilus Costa, 1975 Hifo Candèze, 1882 Hifoides Schwarz, 1906 Hypsiophthalmus Latreille, 1834 Ignelater Costa, 1975 Lygelater Costa, 1975 Metapyrophorus Rosa & Costa, 2009 Noxlumenes Costa, 1975 Nyctophyxis Costa, 1975 Opselater Costa, 1975 Phanophorus Solier, 1851 Photophorus Candèze, 1863 Ptesimopsia Costa, 1975 Pyrearinus Costa, 1975 Pyrophorus Billberg, 1820 Pyroptesis Costa, 1975 Sooporanga Costa, 1975 Vesperelater Costa, 1975
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