Rhagophthalmidae
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Members of the family Rhagophthalmidae are closely related to glowworm beetles, and were often included in that family, but were given independent status in 1994. They are distributed in the Old World, and little is known of their biology, though they do have bioluminescent larvae and adults.
Both adult and larval stages have luminescent organs, females are usually wingless but have adult eyes, antennae and legs; In the genus Diplocladon, the females are larviform, with small light organs on all trunk segments. Larvae and females live in soil and litter and are predaceous; males may be attracted to lights at night.(Lawrence et al., 2000)
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- Branham, M. A., and J. W. Wenzel. 2003. The origin of photic behavior and the evolution of sexual communication in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Cladistics 19: 1-22.
- Lawrence, J.F., Hastings, A.M., Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A., and Zurcher, E.J. 2000 onwards. Elateriformia (Coleoptera): descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval for families and subfamilies. Version: 9th October 2005. online
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