Lamellipalpodes

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.