Mordellina

Mordellina
Mordellina pustulata, Georgia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
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] as 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

References

1. "Mordellina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
2. "Mordellina". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
3. 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.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Mordellina at iNaturalist
• Media related to Mordellina at Wikimedia Commons