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Parvez1, Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy2, Oliver Keller3
1Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute; Bangalore; Karnataka; India.; Department of Zoology; University of Calcutta; Kolkata; India. parveznou@gmail.com.
Abstract:
A checklist of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of 92 species distributed in four subfamilies and 27 genera from India is provided based on a literature survey from 1881 to October 2025. The Indian firefly fauna comprises 60.86% endemic species. Luciolinae is the dominant subfamily with 37 species, followed by Ototretinae 31 species, Lampyrinae 17 species, and Cyphonocerinae with one species. Luciolinae and Ototretinae are the most diverse subfamilies with eleven firefly genera in each. Most of the firefly species found in India are recorded from more than one state.
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