''Lampyris algerica'' is a species of

firefly The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...

in the genus ''

Lampyris ''Lampyris'' is a genus of beetles in the Lampyridae. In most of western Eurasia, they are the predominant members of this family and includes the European common glow-worm, which is the type species. They produce a continuous glow;Stanger-Hall, ...

''. It lives in Algeria and is commonly known as a

glowworm Glowworm or glow-worm is the common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence. They include the European common glow-worm and other members of the Lampyridae, but bioluminescence also o ...

, although this name is not specific to the species.Stanger-Hall ''et al.'' (2007)

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Lampyridae Bioluminescent insects Beetles described in 1869 {{firefly-stub