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Hyperstoma

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Hyperstoma

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Hyperstoma is a genus of firefly beetles in the family Lampyridae. The genus was considered Monotypic until a second species was described in 2011. The genus is endemic to Sri Lanka.

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Species

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyLampyridae

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Family
Lampyridae
Collections
MZLU
Recorded in
Sri Lanka

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taxon
Parent taxon
Lampyridae
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genus
taxon name
Hyperstoma
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Hyperstoma is a genus of firefly beetles in the family Lampyridae. The genus was considered Monotypic until a second species was described in 2011. The genus is endemic to Sri Lanka.

==Taxonomy== The genus is closely related to the genera Lamellipalpus and Lamellipalpodes due to having fused terminal and penultimate terga.

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