1. The elater is sometimes branched.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
Bupretis, elater, and Blaps were found but rarely.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker
It is the elater, or still more scientifically, the Pyrophorus noctilucus.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston