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Mordella Imago of Mordella aculeata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Family: Mordellidae Subfamily: Mordellinae Tribe: Mordellini Genus: Mordella
Linnaeus, 1758Species Numerous, see text
Synonyms Mordellistena Broun, 1880 (non Costa, 1854: preoccupied)
Mordella is the type genus of the tumbling flower beetle family (Mordellidae), its subfamily Mordellinae and the tribe Mordellini. It is widely distributed in the Holarctic and adjacent regions[verification needed].
Selected species
Species of Mordella include:
- Mordella aculeata
- Mordella albosuturalis (Liljeblad, 1922)[verification needed]
- Mordella angulata (LeConte, 1878)[verification needed]
- Mordella atrata Melsheimer, 1845
- Mordella brevistylis (Liljeblad, 1922)[verification needed]
- Mordella capillosa (Liljeblad, 1945)[verification needed]
- Mordella cinereoatra (Liljeblad, 1945)[verification needed]
- Mordella fuscocinerea (Fall, 1907)[verification needed]
- Mordella grandis (Liljeblad, 1922)[verification needed]
- Mordella holomelaena Apfelbeck, 1914
- Mordella hubbsi (Liljeblad, 1922)[verification needed]
- Mordella immaculata (Smith, 1883)[verification needed]
- Mordella insulata (LeConte, 1859)[verification needed]
- Mordella invisitata (Liljeblad, 1945)[verification needed]
- Mordella jucunda (Broun, 1880)
- Mordella knulli (Liljeblad, 1922)[verification needed]
- Mordella latemaculata (Ray, 1944)[verification needed]
- Mordella lunulata (Helmuth, 1865)[verification needed]
- Mordella marginata
- Mordella novemnotata (Ray, 1944)[verification needed]
- Mordella obliqua (LeConte, 1878)[verification needed]
- Mordella pretiosa (Champion, 1891)[verification needed]
- Mordella quadripunctata (Say, 1824)[verification needed]
- Mordella schwarzi (Liljeblad, 1945)[verification needed]
- Mordella signata (Champion, 1891)[verification needed]
- Mordella summermanae Ray, 1939
As Mordella was the first genus of tumbling flower beetles to be described, numerous species now in other genera (e.g. Tolidomordella) were once placed here.
External links
- "Mordella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114384.
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