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Spotted Firefly in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/17/2025). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>CC BY-NC</a>). (Photo ID: 1285476 - Psn: 55)

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Lucidota punctata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Lampyridae
Genus:	Lucidota
Species:	L. punctata
Binomial name
*Lucidota punctata* (LeConte, 1852)

Lucidota punctata is a species of firefly in the beetle family Lampyridae. It is found in North America.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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^ "Lucidota punctata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Lucidota punctata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Lucidota punctata species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

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Taxon identifiers
Lucidota punctata	Wikidata: Q2455131 BioLib: 414526 BOLD: 893318 BugGuide: 279894 CoL: 3WBM7 EoL: 1173886 GBIF: 1162733 iNaturalist: 224158 IRMNG: 11649026 ITIS: 722516 IUCN: 164015975 NatureServe: 2.808472 NCBI: 1977989 Open Tree of Life: 4644817

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Spotted Firefly

Lucidota punctata LeConte, 1851

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