Notes on the Biology of Some Common Lampyridæ

Hess, Walter

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“…In spite of occasional allusions to female participation (Hess, 1920) natural flash synchrony in dialog fireflies seems a behavior of males exclusively.…”

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“…"Wave," "chain" or "sweeping" synchrony features in many field accounts of known or probable rover species (e.g., in Photinus consanguineus: Hess, 1920;Luciola mingrelica: Baldaccini, Fiaschi and Papi, 1970;P concisus: Otte and Smiley, 1977). It has also been reported in unidentified fireflies (Porter, 1978; several citations in Buck, 1938).…”

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“…), agrees closely with that in P pyralis and in Luciola mingrelica (Baldaccini, Fiaschi, and Papi, 1970). In Hess's (1920) description of hundreds of fireflies filling a small valley, the synchrony spread as an augmenting wave and was triggerable artificially. Episodes could be hastened by 20 per cent.…”

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“…In none of these species has group synchrony been observed in the field (the "P consanguineus" display of Hess, 1920, involved a singly flashing species) but observations on interactions between individual captive males strongly implicate phase-delay resetting.…”

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Synchronous Rhythmic Flashing of Fireflies. II.

Buck¹

1988

The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. (Vol. 13:301-314, 1938). Since that time we have learned much about the biochemistry and physiology of firefly luminescence. The firefly lantern has even become a tool for the assay of the major energy compound of cells, ATP. The study of flash communication in many firefly species has revealed that timing relations between the flashes provide the necessary information in this system for sexual and species selection. Nowhere is the ability to control the timing of flashes more strongly exhibited than in the synchronously flashing fireflies of Southeast Asia. These fireflies provide the ultimate test of our biochemical, physiological and behavioral theories of firefly flash communication. The University of Chicago Press SYNCHRONOUS RHYTHMIC FLASHING OF FIREFLIES. II. JOHN BUCKLaboratory of Physical Biology, National Institutes of HealJh, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 USA ABSTRACT Synchronizedflashing by males of some firefly species involves a capacity for visually coordinated, rhythmically coincident, inter-individual behavior that is apparently unique in the animal kingdom exceptfor afew other arthropods andfor man. This paper reviews (1) diverse communicative interactions that have evolvedfrom elementary photic signals, (2) physiological mechanisms of synchronism, and (3) theories about its biological meaning. Work of the past 20 years shows that flash synchrony is widespread geographically and taxonomically, appears in an astonishing range of spectacular display types, utilizes several neuralflash-control mechanisms and is pervasively but enigmatically involved in courtship. No proposedfunction for synchrony has been fully established but theory and physiology concur in indicating that synchrony aids male orientation toward the female, female recognition of male flashing or both. Increased mate choice for the female is one likely ultimate benefit.

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“…In spite of occasional allusions to female participation (Hess, 1920) natural flash synchrony in dialog fireflies seems a behavior of males exclusively.…”

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Synchronous Rhythmic Flashing of Fireflies. II.

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1988

The Quarterly Review of Biology

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“…In single locus systems, the short wing trait is typically dominant (Roff, 1986;Dingle, 1991;Roff and Fairbairn, 1991). In Lampyridae, wing dimorphism represents a sexual dimorphism, whereby wing (and flight) reduction occurs in the female to a varying extent, depending on the species (Hess, 1920;Schwalb, 1961). In females of Lampyris noctiluca, wings are completely absent.…”

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Case of unilateral wing formation in the female of the glowworm Lampyris noctiluca

Maas

Dorn

2003

Journal of Morphology

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On July 27, 1999, the first author found a unilaterally winged adult glowworm in a park in the city of Mainz. Except for the wings on the left side, the specimen exhibited female characteristics that extended to external sexual appendages, the lantern and the gonads. The internal organization showed some remarkable differences between right (wingless) and left (winged) side. The right ovary contained three times more mature eggs than the left side and the volume of the corpus allatum of this side was about one-third larger than that of the left side. This suggests that aptery and egg maturation are affected by corpus allatum activity, i.e., juvenile hormone production. The findings do not support the hypothesis of Naisse ([1966] Arch Biol Liège 77:139-201) that wing formation, as a secondary male characteristic, is controlled by an androgenic hormone from the testes in the glowworm. Thus, the observations on this exceptional specimen have implications for the current hypotheses concerning the control of sexual wing dimorphism in Lampyris noctiluca.

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Studies in animal aggregations: Causes and effects of bunching in land isopods

Allee

1926

J. Exp. Zool.

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Notes on the Biology of Some Common Lampyridæ

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Synchronous Rhythmic Flashing of Fireflies. II.

Synchronous Rhythmic Flashing of Fireflies. II.

Case of unilateral wing formation in the female of the glowworm Lampyris noctiluca

Studies in animal aggregations: Causes and effects of bunching in land isopods

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