 Alternatively, "Phausis" may be paraphyletic and/or at least in part synonymous with "Lamprohiza".The genus is traditionally placed in the tribe Photinini of the Lampyrinae, but at least the blue ghost firefly, "Phausis reticulata" does not seem to be particularly close to this group (or "Lamprohiza" for that matter) and might not even belong in the subfamily Lampyrinae.