violin beetles
Banjo beetles

The genus Mormolyce is known as violin beetles due to their peculiarly shaped elytra.

Violin beetles or Banjo Beetles are ground beetles in the subfamily Lebiinae.

Banjo Beetles From Borneo Some of the beetles, such as June bugs, are familiar.

Others are not, such as the banjo beetles from Borneo, which get their name from their wafer-thin, bronze-wood colored shells and black, string-like limbs that resemble miniature banjos.