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  2. Click beetle - Wikipedia

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    Click beetle larvae, called wireworms, are usually saprophagous, living on dead organisms, but some species are serious agricultural pests, and others are active predators of other insect larvae. Some elaterid species are bioluminescent in both larval and adult form, such as those of the genus Pyrophorus .

  3. Pyrophorus (beetle) - Wikipedia

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    Bioluminescent click beetles are found throughout tropical, subtropical and temperate America. Species from Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Cuba are now in different genera in the tribe Pyrophorini, such as Deilelater and Ignelater. [2] Adult Pyrophorus beetles feed on pollen and sometimes small insects, such as aphids or scale insects. Their ...

  4. Oxynopterus mucronatus - Wikipedia

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    O. mucronatus, like other members of the genus Oxynopterus, are among the largest of the click beetles. [7] [8] The males have distinctive feather-like antennae, with long flat lamellae extending from the antenna segments. The females in contrast, have thin toothed antennae and are larger than the males.

  5. 7 Bioluminescent Bugs That Light Up

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    Click Beetles. Tropical, subtropical, and temperate America. Two lights on the thorax; another on the ventral abdomen. 3. Pyrearinus candelarius. Argentina & Brazil. Green and yellow light. 4 ...

  6. Agriotes sputator - Wikipedia

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    Agriotes sputator [1] is a species of click beetle, commonly known as the common click beetle. [2] The adult beetle is brown and inconspicuous, and the larvae live in the soil and are known as wireworms. They are agricultural pests that devour the roots and underground parts of many crops and other plants.

  7. Pyrophorus noctilucus - Wikipedia

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    These beetles are among the brightest bioluminescent insects. [1] With a brightness of around 45 millilamberts, [2] they are said to be technically bright enough to read by. [3] They achieve their luminescence by means of two light organs at the posterior corners of the prothorax, and a broad area on the underside of the first abdominal segment.

  8. Amychus granulatus - Wikipedia

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    This species was discovered by the lighthouse keeper Andreas Sandager on North Brother Island in Cook Strait, and was described by Broun in 1881. [3] [6] It is currently only found on islands in the outer Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand; [6] fragments of this beetle have been collected from the nest of the extinct Laughing owl in North Canterbury, indicating it once had a much larger former ...

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