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Recent taxonomic work and current biodiversity databases treat the correct authority for Lampyris noctiluca as (Linnaeus, 1758).

A 2022 paper by Oliver Keller re-checked the Linnaean firefly names and concluded that many firefly species commonly cited as 1767 were actually originally described in 1758. The paper specifically states that nine of the twelve Linnaean firefly species were originally described in 1758, and current biodiversity databases list Lampyris noctiluca accordingly.

That matches the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s species page, which gives the authority as (Linnaeus, 1758) for Lampyris noctiluca.

So the article’s authority year of 1767 is incorrect here.

This sentence gives a much too narrow and misleading picture of the species’ distribution.

Authoritative natural-history sources describe Lampyris noctiluca as widely distributed across Britain and found across Europe and Asia. Buglife says the common glow-worm is "common across Britain," being more common in southern England and Wales but also found in lowland Scotland. The Natural History Museum likewise says Lampyris noctiluca is the species most often seen in the UK, is "found across Europe and Asia," and that glow-worm sites are "found widely across Britain."

So it is not accurate to say the species has been found mainly in valleys in Wales and Scotland with only some other appearances elsewhere in Europe. That wording misrepresents a broadly distributed species as if it were concentrated in a few British valleys.

The article states, without qualification, that the larvae are "only a few millimetres in length." That is incorrect as a general description of Lampyris noctiluca larvae.

Buglife’s species account gives larval size as 3–25 mm, showing that newly hatched larvae may be tiny but larvae do not remain only a few millimetres long. A detailed morphological redescription of the mature larva likewise reports a body length of 20–23 mm.

So while very young larvae can be just a few millimetres long, the blanket statement that the larvae are "only a few millimetres in length" is misleading and false for the species overall.

This phrase mixes up two different taxonomic concepts.

For a genus, the name-bearing type is a type species. But for a family-group taxon, the name-bearing type is a type genus, not a type species. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is explicit that "the name-bearing type of a nominal family-group taxon is a nominal genus called the type genus." In this case, Lampyris is the type genus of Lampyridae.

So Lampyris noctiluca can correctly be described as the type species of the genus Lampyris**, but not as the type species of the family Lampyridae.