"Firefly females of the genus Photuris, long known to be carnivorous, attract and devour males of the genus Photinus by mimicking the flash-responses of Photinus females."
— Predation

January 1, 1970

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James E. Lloyd in: Aggressive Mimicry in Photuris: Firefly Femmes Fatales in Science 6 August 1965: Vol. 149 no. 3684 pp. 653-654, sciencemag.org