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Fireflies have featured in human culture around the world for centuries. [55] In Japan, the emergence of fireflies ( Japanese : hotaru ) signifies the anticipated changing of the seasons; [ 56 ] firefly viewing is a special aesthetic pleasure of midsummer, celebrated in parks that exist for that one purpose. [ 57 ]
Photinus pyralis, also known by the common names the common eastern firefly [3] or big dipper firefly, [4] and sometimes called a "lightning bug", [5] is a species of flying beetle. An organ on its abdomen is responsible for its light production. [ 6 ]
Aquatica lateralis, known as "heike-botaru" (ヘイケボタル) in Japanese, is a species of firefly found in Russia, Japan and Korea. It was formerly placed in the genus Luciola. The larvae are aquatic and live in rice paddies. The genome of Aquatica lateralis was sequenced in 2018. [1]
Photuris pensylvanica, known by the common names Pennsylvania firefly, lightning bug, [3] dot-dash firefly [4] and (in its larval state) glowworm, [5] is a species of firefly from the United States and Canada.
Lucidota atra, the black firefly or woodland lucy, [3] is a diurnal species of firefly — a member of the Lampyridae family of beetles (order Coleoptera). [4] [5] [6]
The elongate jewel squid (Histioteuthis reversa), so called because the photophores festooning its body make it appear bejewelled. Diagram of a cephalopod's photophore, in vertical section.
In the anatomy of some taxa, such as many Cicadomorpha, the front of the head is fairly clearly distinguished and tends to be broad and sub-vertical; that median area commonly is taken to be the frons. [9] The clypeus is a sclerite between the face and labrum, which is dorsally separated from the frons by the frontoclypeal suture in primitive ...
Signal transduction pathways in the photocyte of the firefly have been hypothesized to play a role in decreasing the activity of the mitochondria to make oxygen available for the production of light in fireflies. Because the neurons that control the lighting mechanism of the photocytes terminate at the tracheal cells instead of the photocytes ...