Orfelia is a cosmopolitan genus of flies in the family Keroplatidae. Orfelia affinis (Brunetti, 1912) Orfelia amurensis Zaitzev, 1994 Orfelia angulata...
beetles; as well as members of the genera Arachnocampa, Keroplatus and Orfelia among keroplatid fungus gnats. Four families of beetles are bioluminescent...
Orfelia fultoni or “dismalites” is a carnivorous species of fly larvae. It is the only bioluminescent species of dipteran fly found in North America....
Orfelia nemoralis is a Palearctic species of 'fungus gnats' in the family Keroplatidae. The larvae of Orfelia are mycetophagous and live in decaying wood...
to lure prey into their webs. Genus Orfelia – sometimes known as "dismalites". Contains a single species, Orfelia fultoni, found only in North America...
Dismals Canyon is one of only a few places where insects called dismalites (Orfelia fultoni, a distant relative of Arachnocampa) can be found. The larval forms...
captured and devoured. The colors of emitted light vary from dull blue (Orfelia fultoni, Mycetophilidae) to the familiar greens and the rare reds (Phrixothrix...
adaptations for repair of DNA damage. Around a dozen Keroplatidae species and Orfelia fultoni are unique among flies in displaying bioluminescence. In some species...
near Cradle Mountain. Arachnocampa tropica Baker, 2010 - north Queensland Orfelia fultoni - a North American relative that has similar habits. Morris, Lulu...
1792) V.R. Viviani, D.T. Amaral, V.R. Bevilaqua, R.L. Falaschi (2018) Orfelia-type luciferin and its associated storage protein in the non-luminescent...
This sandstone gorge is one of few places worldwide where the dismalites (Orfelia fultoni) gather. Their bioluminescent glow can be seen on night tours in...
describing numerous insect species, including the Appalachian glowworm fly (Orfelia fultoni). In 1942, she joined the Harriet Lane Clinic at Johns Hopkins...
W.; Wilson, T. (2002). "Two bioluminescent Diptera: the North American Orfelia fultoni and the Australian Arachnocampa flava. Similar niche, different...
Australia. Flowers of P. rufa are pollinated by fungus gnats of the species Orfelia. "Pterostylis rufa". APNI. Retrieved 15 July 2017. "Pterostylis rufa"....