Species Mordella signata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Mordella signata Champion - Mordella signata

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 Mordella

Species signata (Mordella signata)

Explanation of Names

Mordella signata Champion, 1891

Numbers

25 spp. n. of Mex. (1) (500 spp. world-wide)

Size

Length: to apices of elytra, 8 mm.; to tip of anal style, 10 mm. (2)

Identification

See: Liljeblad (1945)

Range

AZ-TX / s. to C. Amer. (2)

Remarks

Species not in TAMU Insect Collection. nor recorded in literature for Texas (E. G. Riley, pers. comm. 2010).

Interestingly, the record from UT's Brackenridge Field Lab in Travis County is where Jackman and Nelson (1995) conducted their malaise trapping without finding the species! (3) There is one spmn in the UTIC collected on the field station grounds dated: September 7, 1997.

Print References

Jackman, J.A. and C.R. Nelson. 1995. Diversity and phenology of tumbling flower beetles (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) captured in a malaise trap. Ent. News 106(3): 97-107.

Liljeblad, E. 1945. Monograph of the family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications No. 62, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 229 pp. (2)

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.	Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.

3.	Diversity and phenology of tumbling flower beetles (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) captured in a malaise trap. Jackman and Nelson. 1995. Entomological News 106(3): 97-107.

Contributed by Tim Moyer on 14 November, 2008 - 2:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 5 August, 2023 - 1:49pm

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