Mormolyce

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Harpalinae
Supertribus: Lebiitae
Tribus: Lebiini
Subtribus: Pericalina
Genus: Mormolyce

Species: M. borneensis – M. castelnaudi – M. hagenbachii – M. matejmiciaki – M. phyllodes – M. quadraticollis – M. tridens
Name

Mormolyce Hagenbach, 1825: 500

Type species: Mormolyce phyllodes Hagenbach, 1825 (monotypy)

Mormolyce phyllodes

References
Primary references

Hagenbach, J.J. 1825. Mormolyce novum Coleopterorum genus. 8 pp. (Nürnberg). PDF
Hagenbach, J.J. 1825. Description du Mormolyce, nouveau genre d'insecte dans l'ordre du Coléoptères. Annales des sciences naturelles 6(24): 500–503. BHL
Ďuríček, M. & Klícha, M. 2017. Mormolyce matejmiciaki sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) from Borneo. Zootaxa 4365(2): 241–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.2.8. Reference page.

Links

Mormolyce – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Mormolyce – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names
English: Violin beetle
日本語: バイオリンムシ
norsk: Fiolinbiller
русский: Листовидные жужелицы

Mormolyce is a genus of ground beetles in the subfamily Lebiinae.[1] They all possess distinctive violin-shaped elytra and live between layers of bracket fungi.
Species

The genus contains the following seven species:[2]

Mormolyce borneensis Gestro, 1875 — Indonesia
Mormolyce castelnaudi Deyrolle, 1862 — Indonesia and Malaysia
Mormolyce hagenbachi Westwood, 1862 — Indonesia and Malaysia
Mormolyce matejmiciaki Ďuríček & Klícha, 2017 — Indonesia
Mormolyce phyllodes Hagenbach, 1825 — Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Thailand
Mormolyce quadraticollis Donckier, 1899 — Indonesia
Mormolyce tridens Andrewes, 1941 — Indonesia

References

Lorenz, W. "Lebiini (1): Nomina Carabideum, Online Database", 2005. Retrieved on 2009-08-06.
"Mormolyce Hagenbach, 1825". Carabidae of the World. 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.