fire beetle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pyrophorus noctilucus - because it looks like it is glowing, like fire.
Melanophila - because they seek out fire in order to mate and lay eggs in freshly burned wood.
Noun[edit]
fire beetle (plural fire beetles)
- A luminous click beetle, Pyrophorus noctilucus
- Synonym: headlight elater
- Any insect in the genus Melanophila
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References[edit]
- “fire beetle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.