noctiluca
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Citizen scientists have tracked the UK’s one firefly, the common glow-worm, Lampyris noctiluca, since the 1970s.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020
He was frequently found among the gaudy noctiluca of New York club life—the likes of Kenny Scharf, Ann Magnuson, John Sex, and Madonna.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019
And that Lampyris noctiluca and Phosphaenus hemipterus, though commonly known as glow worms, are in fact beetles.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010
The males of the Lampyris noctiluca family, he reports with apparent approval, are choosy in picking their mates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Science employs the same term: it calls it the lantern-bearer, Lampyris noctiluca, Lin.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
