WORLD
LAMPYRIDAE, LYCIDAE, PHENGODIDAE, DRILIDAE
and miscellany
JM Cicero © 2013, 2022
IE is not recommended
This project grew over the decades with the discovery that malacoderms are graphic
as models for understanding the ontophylogenetics of Coleoptera. Other databases, catalogs and monographs
are woefully inadequate for mining the huge literature on this group, as many, many species, synonymies
and references were missed by the early authors. There are well over 5,500 publications, many of which are
intractably cited, and whose hard copies are resigned to deep, off-site archival library storage. Some have
only gratuitous mention of concerned species. Virtually all will be loaded for nomen-level
search capability. Juvenile literature is omitted but popular literature is not because of the photography it
contains. Biochemistry literature is also included- researchers can determine which species have entered the
molecular biology/protein chemistry theatres. Miscellany includes Telegeusidae, Karumiidae, Prionceridae,
as well as various genera that have moved in and out of the theme families (ie Spermodenops), and luminescent
or reportedly luminescent insects outside of Cantharoidea (Homoptera, Chilopoda, Elateridae [not comprehensive],
Paussidae, Carabidae, Scarabaeidae, and so on).
Database entries can appear with any number of combinations of the following, and other, strings...[Genus]
[Subgenus] [species] [subspecies] [Author] [date] [var] [=synonym] and [OD]. Therefore, user search entries
might include case-sensitive genus only to locate major revisionary works, or genus in one box and [space][truncated
species epithet] in the other. To mine original descriptions/designations, type a genus or truncated epithet in the first box and OD
in the second. Nomen authors cannot be efficiently searched for because they are variously abbreviated, ie Photinus pyralis L,
Photinus pyralis Linn. Authors of synonymized names are not in parentheses-- this would be far too labor intensive,
and query rollouts show the historical synonymic operations anyway. The "OD" label is not yet installed after many of the
earliest named species because 18th & 19th Century authors often would not assert their names as new. Eventually, original
descriptions, figures, biogeography, behavioral and metamorphic scenarios, and many other criteria will be hyperlinked
to the associated nomina.
comments, errors, additions welcome...send pictures! => myCantharoidea@gmail.com