Firefly : Lampyridae

Firefly is also a TV show[?].

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Fireflies
SEM image
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Family: Lampyridae
Genera
Curtos[?] Cyphonocerus[?] Drilaster[?] Ellychnia[?] Hotaria[?] Lampyris[?] Lucidina[?] Luciola[?] - (Japanese fireflies) Photinus[?] - (common eastern firefly) Photuris[?] Pristolycus[?] Pyractomena[?] Pyrocoelia[?] Stenocladius[?]

Fireflies (family Lampyridae) are nocturnal, luminous insects. They use special light-emitting organs to communicate, primarily as part of mating. The light-emitting chemical, luciferase[?], is of scientific interest, and genes for producing it have been spliced into bacteria.

There are more than 2000 species of firefly, found in temperate and tropical environments around the world.

See: Facts about Lampyridae (http://www.donaldburger.com/fffacts.htm)

References
TSN: 113836
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi