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Most bioluminescent insects are soft-bodied and quite small, and so have a scant fossil record.
However, this new fossil, found in amber from northern Myanmar, is exceptionally well-preserved; even the light organ on its abdomen is intact, said Dr. Chenyang Cai, a researcher at the University of Bristol and associate professor at NIGPAS.
The presence of a light-producing organ on the abdomen of the male provides direct evidence that that adults of Cretophengodes were capable of producing light some 100 million years ago.
The newly discovered fossil, preserved with life-like fidelity in amber, represents an extinct relative of the fireflies and the living families Rhagophthalmidae and Phengodidae, says Yan-Da Li from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGP) and Peking University in China. ....

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