Pyrophorus Sentence Examples

Firefly is a term popularly used for certain tropical American click-beetles (Pyrophorus), due to their power of emitting light.

The genus Pyrophorus contains about ninety species, and is entirely confined to America and the West Indies, ranging from the southern United States to Argentina and Chile.

The cucujo or Cuban firefly (Pyrophorus noctilucus) gives out so strong a light that a few of them serve effectively as a lantern.