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The life cycle, morphology, and bionomy of Photinus extensus Gorham, 1881, an endemic species of Mexico, are described. Redescriptions of adults (male and female) are also presented. Larvae were reared to the adult stage from eggs laid by females collected at the El Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, south of Mexico City. The activity period of adults of P. extensus begins at the end of July and finishes by the end of August. Females lay between 3 and 198 eggs. Larvae hatch from the eggs after a period of 11 to 71 days, undergo 6 larval instars and a pupal stage in an annual cycle. Morphological characters of the sixth larval instar of P. extensus are compared with those of several other genera assigned to the tribe Photinini. Knowledge of the natural history of firefly larvae is relevant since most species do not feed as adults and therefore depend on resources acquired during the larval stage.

Tribe Deltochilini Lacordaire, 1856 Canthon ateuchiceps Bates, 1881. Source: Deloya & Morón 1994 Canthon cyanellus LeConte, 1859. Source: Delgado 1997 Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) corporaali Balthasar, 1939. Source: Rivera–Cervantes & Halffter 1999 Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) leechi (Martínez, Halffter & Halffter, 1969). Source: Rivera-Cervantes & Halffter 1999 Canthon humectus (Say, 1832). Source: Deloya et al. 1993 Canthon indigaceus LeConte, 1866. Source: Deloya et al. 1993 Canthon viridis Beauvois, 1805. Source: Bates 1886 - 1889 Deltochilum (Deltochilum) scabriusculum Bates, 1887. Source: Bates 1886 –1889 Deltochilum gibbosum Bates, 1887. Source: Deloya et al. 1993 Deltochilum tumidum Howden, 1966. Source: Deloya et al. 1993 Pseudocanthon perplexus LeConte, 1847. Source: Deloya & Morón 1994, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Bates, H. W. (1881) Adephaga. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta: Coleoptera. Fol. I. Part. 1. published for the editors by R. H. Porter, London, Available from: http: // www. sil. si. edu / DigitalCollections / bca / navigation / bca _ 12 _ 01 _ 01 / bca _ 12 _ 01 _ 01. cfm? start = 17 (accessed 27 August 2017)","Deloya, C. & Moron, M. A. (1994) Coleopteros Lamellicornios del Distrito de Jojutla, Morelos, Mexico (Melolonthidae, Scarabaeidae, Trogidae y Passalidae). Listados Faunisticos de Mexico (F). Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 49 pp.","Delgado, L. (1997) Distribucion estatal de la diversidad y nuevos registros de Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) mexicanos. Folia Entomologica Mexicana, 99, 37 - 56.","Rivera-Cervantes, L. E. & Halffter, G. (1999) Monografia de las especies mexicanas de Canthon del subgenero Glaphyrocanthon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae). Acta Zoologica Mexicana, Nueva Serie, 77, 23 - 150.","Deloya, C., Burgos, A., Blackaller, J. & Lobo, J. M. (1993) Los Coleopteros Lamellicornios de Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico (Passalidae, Trogidae, Scarabaeidae, y Melolonthidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Feracruzana de Zoologia, 3 (1), 15 - 55.","Bates, H. W. (1886 - 1890) Pecticornia and Lamellicornia. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta. Coleoptera. Fol. II. Part 2. published for the editors by R. H. Porter, London. Available from: http: // www. sil. si. edu / DigitalCollections / bca / navigation / bca _ 12 _ 02 _ 02 / bca _ 12 _ 02 _ 02. cfm? start = 19 (accessed 8 November 2017)"]}

Tribe Omaliini MacLeay, 1825 Omalium meximontanum Thayer, 2003. Source: Márquez 2006 Phloeonomus centralis Blackwelder, 1944. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Caballero-Pérez 2003; Márquez 2001, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Marquez, J. (2006) Primeros registros estatales y datos de distribucion geografica de especies mexicanas de Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). Boletin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 38, 181 - 198.","Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Caballero-Perez, U. (2003) Staphylinidae necrofilos (Insecta: Coleoptera) de la Sierra de Huautla, Morelos. Bachelor's thesis. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Mexico, 110 pp.","Marquez, J. (2001) Especies necrofilas de Staphylinidae del municipio de Tlayacapan Morelos. Folia Entomologica Mexicana, 40 (1), 93 - 131."]}

Tribe Exosternini Bickhardt, 1914 Phelister sp. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001 Pseudister rufulus (Lewis, 1888). Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Navarrete-Heredia & González-Estrada 2003, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Lewis, G. (1888) Histeridae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta: Coleoptera. Fol. II. Part. 1. published for the editors by R. H. Porter, London. Available from: http: // www. sil. si. edu / DigitalCollections / bca / navigation / bca _ 12 _ 02 _ 01 / bca _ 12 _ 02 _ 01. cfm? start = 198 (accessed 27 August 2017)","Navarrete-Heredia J. L. & Gonzalez-Estrada, D. (2003) Las especies de Histeridae (Coleoptera) de la Coleccion Entomologica del Centro de Estudios en Zoologia, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 33, 125 - 129."]}

Subfamily Saprininae Blanchard, 1845 Xerosaprinus psyche (Casey, 1916). Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Navarrete-Heredia & González-Estrada 2003, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Navarrete-Heredia J. L. & Gonzalez-Estrada, D. (2003) Las especies de Histeridae (Coleoptera) de la Coleccion Entomologica del Centro de Estudios en Zoologia, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 33, 125 - 129."]}

Tribe Scydmaenini Leach, 1815 Scydmaenus brunneus Schaum, 1841. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Navarrete-Heredia & Newton 2013 Ascydmus sp. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Márquez 1994 Neladius sp. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Márquez 1994, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Navarrete-Heredia, J. L. & Newton, A. F. (2013) Staphylinidae of Mexico: checklist updates and papers published between 2002 - 2013. Dugesiana, 20 (2), 127 - 139.","Marquez, J. & Navarrete, J. L. (1994) Especies de Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) asociadas a detritos de Atta mexicana (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) en dos localidades de Morelos, Mexico. Folia Entomologica Mexicana, 91, 31 - 46."]}

Subtribe Calopterina Green, 1949 Calopteron bifasciatum Gorham, 1880. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Zaragoza-Caballero et al. 2003 Calopteron flavipes Blanchard, 1837. Source: CNIN Calopteron jimenezi Dugès, 1878. Source: Zaragoza-Caballero et al. 2003 Calopteron reticulatum (Fabricius, 1775). Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001; Zaragoza-Caballero et al. 2003 Calopteron terminale (Say, 1823). Source: CNIN Calopteron obliquum Gorham, 1882. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001 Idiopteron sp. Source: CNIN Leptoceletes sp. Source: CNIN, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Noguera, F. A., Chemsak, J. A., Gonzalez-Soriano, E., Rodriguez-Palafox, A., Ramirez-Garcia, E. & Ayala, R. (2003) Diversity of Lycidae, Phengodidae, Lampyridae, and Cantharidae (Coleoptera) in a tropical dry forest region in Mexico: Sierra de Huautla, Morelos. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 79 (1), 23 - 37."]}

Tribe Tillomorphini Lacordaire, 1868 Euderces cribripennis Bates, 1892. Source: Burgos & Trejo-Loyo 2001 Noguera et al. 2002; Bezark 2016 Euderces longicollis (Linsley, 1935). Source: Noguera et al. 2002 Euderces perplexus Giesbert & Chemsak, 1997. Source: Bezark 2016; Monné 2016a Euderces pulcher (Bates, 1874). Source: Noguera et al. 2002, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Burgos S., A. & Trejo-Loyo, A. G. (2001) Lista preliminar de los coleopteros registrados para el estado de Morelos, Mexico. In: Navarrete Heredia, J. L., Fierro-Lopez, H. E. & Burgos-Solorio, A. (Eds.), Topicos sobre Coleoptera de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara y Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, pp. 69 - 95.","Noguera, F. A., Zaragoza-Caballero, S., Chemsak, J. A., Rodriguez-Palafox, A., Ramirez, E., Gonzalez-Soriano, E. & Ayala, R. (2002) Diversity of the family Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the tropical dry forest of Mexico, I. Sierra de Huautla, Morelos. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 95 (5), 617 - 627. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / 0013 - 8746 (2002) 095 [0617: DOTFCC] 2.0. CO; 2","Bezark, L. G. (2016) Checklist of the Oxypeltidae, Fesperidae, Disteniidae and Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere 2016 Edition (updated through 31 December 2015). Available from: https: // apps 2. cdfa. ca. gov / publicApps / plant / bycidDB / checklists / WestHemiCerambycidae 2016. pdf (accessed 27 July 2017)","Monne, M. A. (2016 a) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Available from: www. cerambyxcat. com / Parte 1 _ Cerambycinae. pdf (accessed 27 July 2017)"]}

Tribe Athyreini Lynch Arribálzaga, 1878 Neoathyreus granulicollis Howden, 1964. Source: Howden 1964, Published as part of Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago, Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M., Vega-Badillo, Viridiana, González-Ramírez, Mireya, Zurita-García, Martín L., Domínguez-León, Daniel E., López-Pérez, Sara, Gutiérrez-Carranza, Ishwari G., Cifuentes-Ruiz, Paulina, Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Valle, Enya Ramírez Del & Gutiérrez, Nayeli, 2019, A checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) from Morelos, Mexico, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 4580 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637573, {"references":["Howden, H. F. (1964) The Geotrupinae of North and Central America. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 96 (39), 5 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 9639 fv"]}