#3499 · 🪲 beetles
Winter Firefly
Photinus corruscus
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © joannerusso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jimmy Dee · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Mike Quinn, San Marcos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Tyler Bishop · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Ellychnia corrusca , the winter firefly , is a species of firefly in the genus Ellychnia . It is a lantern-less diurnal beetle common in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The adults spend winter on a colony tree, favoring Quercus (oak), Carya (hickory), and Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar).
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 28,945 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Winter Firefly
- scientific name
- Photinus corruscus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Lampyridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 28,945
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Lampyridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1616267, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.