Lamellipalpodes

Lamellipalpodes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Lampyridae
Genus:	Lamellipalpodes Maulik, 1921

Lamellipalpodes is a genus of firefly beetles in the family Lampyridae. Species are distributed in India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} Species of Lamellipalpodes are known to possess striking morphological features. Males of these genera have morphologically distinct maxillary and labial palps bearing long paddle-like terminal palpomeres which are 5–11 times longer than the penultimate palpomeres. The genus is closely related to Lamellipalpus, ^[7] the members of which have considerably larger mandibles.

Species

As of 2025, the genus contains 12 species: ^{[8] [6]}

• L. annandalei Maulik, 1921 (India: Bengal, Kashmir; Nepal.)
• L. asmita Chakrovorty & Bhattacharjee, 2025
• L. bajhangensis Bocakova et al., 2015
• L. godawarensis Bocakova et al., 2015 (Nepal)
• L. himalensis Kazantsev, 2015
• L. holzschuhi Bocakova et al., 2015 (W Nepal)
• L. lineatus (Pic, 1921)(South India)
• L. masatakai Kawashima, 2007. (E. Myanmar)
• L. montanus Wittmer, 1995 (W Nepal)
• L. nepalensis Wittmer, 1995 (W Nepal)
• L. tsurui Kawashima, 2007 (Thailand)
• L. yunnanensis Bocakova et al., 2015 (China: south Yunnan; northern Laos)

References

1. Maulik, S. (1921). "New Indian Drilid Beetles". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 91 (3): 579–586. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1921.tb03281.x.
2. Wittmer, W. (1995). "Lampyridae und Omethidae aus dem indo-malaiischen Faunengebiet (Coleoptera)". Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel. 45 (3): 106–117.
3. Brancucci, Michel; Geiser, Michael (2009). "A revision of the genus Lamellipalpus Maulik, 1921 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)". Zootaxa. 2080. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2080.1.1.
4. Kawashima, I. (2007). "Two new species of the genus Lamellipalpodes (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Indochina, Southeast Asia" (PDF). Elytra, Tokyo. 35: 119–128.
5. Bocakova, Milada; Bocak, Ladislav; Gimmel, Matthew L.; Friedlova, Tereza (2015). "A review of the genus Lamellipalpodes Maulik (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". Zootaxa. 3925 (3): 409–421. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3925.3.5. PMID   25781751.
6. Chakrovorty, Arnob; Bhattacharjee, Banani (2025). "Lamellipalpodes asmita sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Ototretinae), a new species of non-luminous firefly from West Bengal, India with SEM study of mechano- and chemoreceptive sensilla" . Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 28 (1). doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2024.102367.
7. Brancucci, Michel; Geiser, Michael (2009). "A revision of the genus Lamellipalpus Maulik, 1921 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)". Zootaxa. 2080. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2080.1.1.
8. "Lamellipalpodes Maulik, 1921". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 30 January 2025.