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Violin Beetles
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Violin Beetles

Mormolyce

Violin beetles or banjo beetles are ground beetles in the subfamily Lebiinae. They all possess distinctive violin-shaped elytra and live between layers of bracket fungi.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Javan Fiddle Beetle

speciesMormolyce phyllodes

Mormolyce borneensis

speciesMormolyce borneensis

Mormolyce matejmiciaki

speciesMormolyce matejmiciaki

Mormolyce hagenbachii

speciesMormolyce hagenbachii

Mormolyce quadraticollis

speciesMormolyce quadraticollis

Mormolyce castelnaudi

speciesMormolyce castelnaudi

Mormolyce tridens

speciesMormolyce tridens

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 422200.