Cladodes

In botany, "Cladodes" may refer to a synonym of the genus Alchornea or to the plural of "cladode".
Cladodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lampyridae
Subfamily: Lampyrinae (but see text)
Genus: Cladodes
Solier, 1849
Synonyms

Nyctocrepis Motschulsky, 1853 Rhipidophorus Solier in Gay, 1849 (non Gistl, 1847: preoccupied)

Cladodes is a genus of firefly beetles.

It used to be included in the subfamily Amydetinae, which is probably a highly artificial paraphyletic assemblage however. Thus, the genus is moved to the Lampyrinae for the time being.

Species within this genus include:

References


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