Violin beetle
Violin beetles or banjo beetles are ground beetles in the subfamily Lebiinae.[1] They all possess distinctive violin-shaped elytra and live between layers of bracket fungi.
Violin beetles | |
---|---|
Mormolyce phyllodes | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Subfamily: | |
Genus: | Mormolyce Hagenbach, 1825 |
Species | |
5; see text |
Species
The genus contains the following five species:[2]
- Mormolyce castelnaudi Deyrolle, 1862 — Malaysia and Thailand
- Mormolyce hagenbachi Westwood, 1862 — Malaysia
- Mormolyce phyllodes Hagenbach, 1825 — Indonesia and Malaysia
- Mormolyce quadraticollis Donckier, 1899
- Mormolyce tridens Andrewes, 1941
gollark: https://www.pmwiki.org/ https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage https://wiki.js.org/ https://github.com/sbrl/Pepperminty-Wiki https://wackowiki.org/ http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
gollark: Hold on while i observe my notations:
gollark: The trouble is, there are about... 5 different wiki engines we could use.
gollark: But WHAT wiki, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
gollark: They probably run on anomalous physics somehow. SCP-5128 and all.
References
Wikispecies has information related to Violin beetle |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mormolyce. |
- Lorenz, W. "Lebiini (1): Nomina Carabideum, Online Database", 2005. Retrieved on 2009-08-06.
- "Mormolyce Hagenbach, 1825". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 11 Jul 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.