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Melanophila acuminata, known generally as the black fire beetle or fire bug, is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in the Caribbean , Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America, and Southern Asia.
Pyrophorus (also known as fire beetles) is a genus of click beetle (family Elateridae). They are one of several genera in the tribe Pyrophorini , all of which are bioluminescent .
Melanophila is a genus of buprestid beetles commonly known as fire beetles. They have extraordinary sensitivity to infrared radiation (heat), using a specialized sensor organ near their legs. [ 1 ] They seek out fires in order to mate and lay eggs in freshly burned wood.
Dendroides canadensis, the fire-colored beetle, is a species of fire-colored beetle in the family Pyrochroidae from southeastern Canada and the eastern and central United States. This beetle has both the adaptations of freezing tolerance and freezing susceptibility (supercooling).
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Fire-coloured beetles is the common name for members of the tenebrionoid family Pyrochroidae. [1] The family is found worldwide, and is most diverse at temperate latitudes. Adults measure 2–20 millimetres (0.079–0.787 in); larvae reach 35 millimetres (1.4 in). Larvae of Pyrochroinae are found associated with the bark of dead trees.
They can sense pine wood smoke from up to 50 miles away, and can see infrared light, helping them to zero in as they get closer to a forest fire. [ 2 ] Ten species of flatheaded borers of the family Buprestidae feed on spruce and fir , but hemlock is their preferred food source (Rose and Lindquist 1985). [ 3 ]
Dendroides canadensis Leconte (fire-colored beetle) Dendroides concolor (Newman, 1838) Dendroides ephemeroides (Mannerheim, 1852) Dendroides marginata Van Dyke, 1928; Dendroides marginatus Van Dyke, 1928; Dendroides picipes Horn, 1880; Dendroides testaceus LeConte, 1855