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Violin beetle
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
.
Species
The
genus
contains
the following five species:
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