Bioluminescent click beetles form the Pyrophorus genus. The lights they emit are similar to those of fireflies. However, ...

French pharmacologist Raphael Dubois observed that a specific constituent of the click beetle was essential for bioluminescent reactions. He extracted two components from beetle abdomens, naming the ...

as well as the implications of the evolution of bioluminescence and photic signaling in this group of beetles. The Rhagophthalmidae appears to include Dioptoma and Diplocladon (formerly located in ...

These are the bioluminescent lures of click beetle larvae living in the outer layers of the mounds. When conditions are right, they poke out of their tunnels. Shining their ‘headlights’, they wait for ...