Hime-botaru (Small Firefly)
Luciola parvula
Photo: Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara / CC BY-NC 4.0 / iNaturalist
The Hime-botaru is a small firefly about one centimeter long whose larvae live on land among leaf litter. In early summer evenings adults flash regular yellow lights in woodland. Unlike Genji fireflies, it lives in forests rather than by water. Its sites in Iwate and Okayama are designated Natural Monuments.
- Scientific name
- Luciola parvula
- Group
- Insects
- Prefectures
- Iwate, Okayama
- 日本語
- ヒメボタル
- 简体中文
- 姬萤
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The Hime-botaru (Small Firefly) is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Iwate, Okayama.
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