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Genus Mordellina

small Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellina infima Mordellistena pustulata (Melsheimer) - Mordellina pustulata Mordella Marginata ? - Mordellina pustulata Tumbling flower beetle (Mordellina pustulata?) - Mordellina pustulata Mordellina ancilla Mordellina pustulata NJ June - Mordellina pustulata Tumbler - Mordellina pustulata Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellina wickhami
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 Mordellistenini
Genus Mordellina
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
NA members of this genus used to be treated in Mordellistena(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Mordellina Schilsky 1908
Numbers
16 spp. in our area, ~60 total(1)(2)(3)
Range
NA, Africa, E. Asia
Works Cited
1.Nomenclatural changes for selected Mordellidae (Coleoptera) in North America
J.A. Jackman & W. Lu. 2001. Insecta Mundi 15(1): 31-34.
2.Taxonomic changes for fifteen species of North American Mordellidae (Coleoptera)
Lisberg A.E. 2003. Insecta Mundi 17: 191-194.
3.Descriptions of Four New Species of Tumbling Flower Beetles (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) from Eastern North America
Steury, B.W. and W.E. Steiner. 2020. The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 699-709.