CLADODINAE BOCAKOVA ET AL., 1966

Bocakova, Milada, Campello-Gonçalves, Lucas & Silveira, Luiz Felipe Lima Da, 2022, Phylogeny of the new subfamily Cladodinae: neotenic fireflies from the Neotropics (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195, pp. 1181-1199 : 1186

CLADODINAE BOCAKOVA ET AL. SUBFAM. NOV.

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Type genus: Cladodes Solier, 1849 (hereby designated).

Diagnosis: Antennae uniflabellate, fan-like, lamellae laterally compressed, long, 2.3–8.0× longer than antennomere length, terminal antennomere 2–5× longer than the subapical. Inner margin of eyes in frontal view rounded, frons depressed. Mandibles well developed,overlapping, arcuateoralmostright-angled. Terminal maxillary palpomere flattened. Pronotum expanded anteriorly and laterally, prosternum long, at least as long as antennal pedicel. Hind leg tarsomere 1 longer than 2. Laterotergite robust, trapezoidal. Abdominal spiracles dorsal, enclosed by back-folded sterna. Terga with posterior corners projected. Pygidium large, bisinuate to trilobed posteriorly, posterolateral corners mostly acute. Sternum VIII half as long as pygidium, bisinuate posteriorly, median projection often mucronate. Terga IX–X coalescent forming syntergite with lateral margins convergent posteriorly. Sterna II–IX visible in males, II–VIII in females. Aedeagal parameral apices bent inwards, convergent, phallobase symmetrical, phallic basal struts reaching basal third of phallobase or less, thin rod-like appendages absent, phallus basally constricted, apically convergent. Females larviform.

Genera included: Andecladodes g e n. n o v., Brasilocladodes gen. nov., Cladodes Solier , Dodacles O l i v i e r, D r y p t e ly t r a L a p o r t e, L e d o c a s O l i v i e r, Nyctocrepis Motschulsky.

Distribution: Central and South America.

Natural history and biogeography: Diurnal, particularly abundant in moist broadleaf rainforests and cloud forests ( Silveira et al., 2015). Males are slow, poor fliers and usually secrete strong scents when disturbed. Widely distributed in the Amazon Basin, Atlantic Rainforest and South American Dry Diagonal (Chaco, Cerrado and Caatinga) .