Author： LLOYD JAMES E.
Publisher： Entomological Society of America
ISSN： 1938-2901
Source： Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol.58, Iss.4, 1965-07, pp. : 588-591
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Abstract
Luminescence in adults of Phausis reticulata (Say), a firefly, functions to bring the sexes together for reproduction. Both sexes are luminous and females are stimulated to turn on their lights by glowing males. Such a lighting response in females would be a fundamental stage in the evolution of complex flash-communication systems. Males of Pyrophorus atlanticus Hyslop, a click beetle, can be attracted to an illuminated decoy with a twin light arrangement which simulates the prothoracic light organs possessed by both sexes, but not to a single light.
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