Lamellipalpodes is a genus of firefly beetles in the family Lampyridae. It is a small genus of Ototretinae fireflies with 11 species. These 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. Phylogenetic relationships of Lamellipalpodes are not established and the genus is closely related to Lamellipalpus.[7] Species of Lamellipalpus have considerably larger sized mandibles than Lamellipalpodes.
Species
Genus Lamellipalpodes have been reported with 12 species and they are:
^Brancucci, Michel; Geiser, Michael (2009). "A revision of the genus Lamellipalpus Maulik, 1921 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)". Zootaxa. 2080. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2080.1.1.
^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. PMID25781751.
^Brancucci, Michel; Geiser, Michael (2009). "A revision of the genus Lamellipalpus Maulik, 1921 (Coleoptera, Lampyridae)". Zootaxa. 2080. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2080.1.1.