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
How does the jellyfish called ctenophore and the tiny, multitudinous noctiluca flash in the sea?
From Time Magazine Archive
GLOW-WORM, the popular name of the wingless female of the beetle Lampyris noctiluca, whose power of emitting light has been familiar for many centuries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
