The Photurinae are a subfamily of the Lampyridae (fireflies). They are among the flashing (as opposed to continuously glowing) fireflies known as "lightning bugs" in North America. The anterior ends of the elytra sit higher than the pronotum, giving the Photurinae a characteristic "hunched" posture.
The Photurinae are a subfamily of the Lampyridae (fireflies). They are among the flashing (as opposed to continuously glowing) fireflies known as "lightning bugs" in North America. The anterior ends of the elytra sit higher than the pronotum, giving the Photurinae a characteristic "hunched" posture.
The Photurinae are sister to the large subfamily Lampyrinae, which contain species that also produce flashing for sexual signaling. It is yet unknown whether the ability to flash in these subfamilies is a homology or a product of convergent evolution.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).