A lucibufagin is a defensive steroid produced by several species of firefly to make them unpalatable to predators such as spiders and birds. Certain species...

distasteful to vertebrate predators, as they contain the steroid pyrones lucibufagins, similar to the cardiotonic bufadienolides found in some poisonous toads...

appear to target males, such as Photinus pyralis, specifically for the lucibufagin steroids that their prey produce. Photuris versicolor are large members...

in their habitats. Photinus pyralis contain steroid compounds called lucibufagins, which make them taste bad to potential predators, such as birds, bats...

In this way they obtain both food and the defensive chemicals named lucibufagins, which Photuris cannot synthesize. South American giant cockroaches of...

Mollicutes could also be present in E. corrusca due to lucibufagins in the hemolymph. Lucibufagins are steroid-related molecules that are synthesized from...