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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Tolidomordella » Tolidomordella discoidea

Species Tolidomordella discoidea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Mordellidae (Tumbling Flower Beetles)
Tribe Mordellini
Genus Tolidomordella
Species discoidea (Tolidomordella discoidea)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tolidomordella discoidea (Melsheimer)
Orig. Comb: Mordella discoidea Melsheimer 1845
Syn: Tomoxia discoidea (Melsheimer)
Syn: Mordella flaviventris Smith
Numbers
2 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
4.25 mm (to tip of anal style)
Identification
head and prontum both pale yellow, both with large black spot on disk forward of basal margin.
Range
e. US / Mex. - Map (1)(2)
Print References
Liljeblad (1945) (3)
Melsheimer, F.E. 1845. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2: 302-318.
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico
Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.
Contributed by Tim Moyer on 11 June, 2008 - 11:20am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 14 June, 2023 - 12:27pm

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