Lamellipalpodes kurumba

Lamellipalpodes kurumba is a rare, non-luminous species of firefly discovered in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, India. The Western Ghats are internationally recognized as one of the world's major biodiversity hotspots, characterized by high levels of species richness and endemism. Lamellipalpodes is a genus of non-luminous fireflies within the family Lampyridae, characterized by distinctly broadened terminal labial and maxillary palpomeres. The species was named in honour of the Kurumba, an indigenous...