Mordellina

Genus of beetles

Mordellina
Mordellina pustulata, Georgia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Mordellidae
Subfamily: Mordellinae
Tribe: Mordellini
Genus: Mordellina
Schilsky, 1908
Type species
Mordellina gracilis
Schilsky, 1908

Mordellina is a genus of tumbling flower beetles in the family Mordellidae. There are more than 30 described species in Mordellina.[1][2][3]

Mordellina testacea, Texas

Species

These 34 species belong to the genus Mordellina, according to GBIF[2] and BioLib,[4] a well as (Hájek 2012)[3].

  • Mordellina amamiensis (Nomura, 1951)
  • Mordellina ancilla (LeConte, 1862)
  • Mordellina andreae (LeConte, 1862)
  • Mordellina atrofusca (Nomura, 1951)
  • Mordellina blatchleyi (Liljeblad, 1945)
  • Mordellina curtepicalis (Pic, 1926)
  • Mordellina floridensis (Smith, 1882)
  • Mordellina gina Nomura, 1967
  • Mordellina guttulata (Helmuth, 1864)
  • Mordellina impatiens (LeConte, 1862)
  • Mordellina infima (LeConte, 1862)
  • Mordellina janae Horák, Farkac & Nakládal, 2012
  • Mordellina kaguyahime (Nomura & Kato, 1957)
  • Mordellina kimurai Tsuru, 2021
  • Mordellina lecontei (Ermisch, 1953)
  • Mordellina marginalis Nomura, 1967
  • Mordellina minutalis (Liljeblad, 1945)
  • Mordellina nigricans (Melsheimer, 1846)
  • Mordellina paiwana Nomura, 1967
  • Mordellina parva (Liljeblad, 1945)
  • Mordellina pilosella (Ray, 1947)
  • Mordellina pilosovittata (Nakane, 1956)
  • Mordellina purcharti Horák, Farkac & Nakládal, 2012
  • Mordellina pustulata (Melsheimer, 1846)
  • Mordellina quadrinotata (Liljeblad, 1921)
  • Mordellina rufohumeralis Nomura, 1967
  • Mordellina semiusta (LeConte, 1862)
  • Mordellina signatella (Marseul, 1876)
  • Mordellina stastnyi Horák, Farkac & Nakládal, 2012
  • Mordellina testacea (Blatchley, 1910)
  • Mordellina tsutsuii (Nakane, 1956)
  • Mordellina washingtonensis Steury & Steiner, 2020
  • Mordellina wickhami (Liljeblad, 1945)
  • Mordellina wimbledon Steury & Steiner, 2020

The following are additionally listed as species of Mordellina in "Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog, Texas A&M University", 2008. These species may no longer be valid.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Mordellina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  2. ^ a b "Mordellina". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  3. ^ a b Hájek, Jiří; Bezděk, Jan (2012). "Insect Biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 52.
  4. ^ "Mordellina Report". BioLib.cz. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  5. ^ Mordellidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University, archived from the original on 7 October 2014, retrieved 8 August 2015
  • Citizen science observations for Mordellina at iNaturalist
  • Media related to Mordellina at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Mordellina
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