Lampyris

All the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis. 14 I found that this insect emitted the most brilliant flashes when irritated: in the intervals, the abdominal rings were obscured.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

All the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis. 14 I found that this insect emitted the most brilliant flashes when irritated: in the intervals, the abdominal rings were obscured.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

All the fireflies, which I caught here belonged to the Lampyridæ (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis.

Chapter II 1909

It is not surprising, therefore, that many beetles, even when adult, should live as their larvae do; since the acquirement of complete metamorphosis they have become modified towards the larval condition, and an extreme case of such modification is afforded by the wingless grub-like female Glow-worm (Lampyris).

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

Lampyris will presently show us the equivalent, he remains on the look-out, waiting, if necessary, for whole days at a time.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

What does the Lampyris want with anæsthetical talent against a harmless and moreover eminently peaceful adversary, who would never begin the quarrel of his own accord?

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The first few, however -- there are never many -- are enough to impart inertia and loss of all feeling to the mollusc, thanks to the prompt, I might almost say, lightning methods of the Lampyris, who, beyond a doubt, instils some poison or other by means of his grooved hooks.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Snails attacked by the Lampyris while they are creeping along, the foot slowly crawling, the tentacles swollen to their full extent.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

If, on the other hand, in the frequent case when the shell does not fit its support quite closely, some point, however tiny, be left uncovered, this is enough for the subtle tools of the Lampyris, who just nibbles at the mollusc and at once plunges him into that profound immobility which favours the tranquil proceedings of the consumer.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It is in some such resting-place as this that I have often been privileged to light upon the Lampyris banqueting on the prey which he had just paralyzed on its shaky support by his surgical artifices.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869