2 Violins

2 Violin Beetles on the underside of a big fungi

comments (6)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Surreal! If you didn't mention this is a fungi I really had no idea how to understand this scene at all. Posted 8 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Sorry, I didn't take the picture of the whole fungi with them on the underside.
  The fungi is a big one on a tree trunk. The Violin Beetles are on its underside. Posted 8 years ago

Martin Lagerwey

Lion

I have always assumed this beetle is a mimic of a large winged seedpod of some thing like the Bushwillow (Combretum). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combretum Can anyone confirm this? Posted 8 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Now that you mentioned it, Martin, yes, they do looks a bit similar to the gliding seed pods.
  Am not sure if that is the intention of mimicry.
  I usually find this Violin Beetles under the big Fungi.
  
  This is the sliding seed pod that may looks similar in term of body structure :
  
  http://www.gbif.org/species/5537054
  
  Posted 8 years ago