Kelip-kelip

Kelip-kelip
Kelip-kelip Photuris lucicrescens
Pengelasan saintifik
Alam: Haiwan Filum: Artropoda Kelas: Serangga Order: Coleoptera Suborder: Polyphaga Infraorder: Elateriformia Superkeluarga: Elateroidea Keluarga: Lampyridae Latreille, 1817
Subfamilies
Cyphonocerinae Lampyrinae Luciolinae Ototetrinae (dipertikai) Photurinae dan lihat bawah Genus incertae sedis: Oculogryphus Pterotus LeConte, 1859

Kelip-kelip atau dikenali sebagai kunang-kunang adalah sejenis serangga bersayap yang mengeluarkan cahaya yang berkelip-kelip pada waktu malam.

Bentuk larva betina menunjukkan organ pemancar cahaya pada perut.

Rujukan

• Branham, M. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2003. The origin of photic behavior and the evolution of sexual communication in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Cladistics 19: 1-22.http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118842393/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
• Lewis, S. M., and C. K. Cratsley. 2008. Flash signal evolution, mate choice, and predation in fireflies. Annual Review of Entomology 53:293-321. http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.093346
• Stous, Hollend. 1997. A review of predation in Photuris, and its effects on the evolution of flash signaling in other New World fireflies. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/papers_1997/stous.html

Pautan luar

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi
• http://www.iisc.ernet.in/academy/resonance/Sept2002/pdf/Sept2002p49-55.pdf
• Fireflies, long-term exposures, Germany