Editing Firefly (section)

=== Taxonomy ===

The fireflies (including the lightning bugs) are a family, Lampyridae, of some 2,000 species within the Coleoptera. The family forms a single [[clade]], a natural phylogenetic group.<ref name=Martin2019/> The term glowworm is used for both adults and larvae of firefly species such as ''[[Lampyris noctiluca]]'', the common European glowworm, in which only the nonflying adult females glow brightly; the flying males glow weakly and intermittently.<ref name="Meyer-Rochow 2007"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glowworms.org.uk |title=UK Glow worm survey home page}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/glow-worm |access-date=19 July 2018 |title=Enter a glow-worm record |date=11 June 2015}}</ref> In the [[Americas]], "glow worms" are the closely related Coleopteran family [[Phengodidae]], while in New Zealand and Australia, a "glow worm" is a luminescent larva of the fungus gnat ''[[Arachnocampa]]'', within the true flies, [[Fly|Diptera]].<ref name="Meyer-Rochow 2007">{{cite journal |last=Meyer-Rochow |first=Victor Benno |title=Glowworms: a review of "Arachnocampa" spp and kin |journal=[[Luminescence (journal)|Luminescence]] |date=2007 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=251–265 |doi=10.1002/bio.955 |pmid=17285566 }}</ref>