Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae
Alternative combination: Mordellistena scudderiana
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1914. Twenty new Coleoptera from the Florissant Shales. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 40:257-270
Belongs to Petrimordella according to J. Batelka et al. 2023
See also Wickham 1914 and Wickham 1914
Sister taxa: Petrimordella indata, Petrimordella inundata, Petrimordella lapidicola, Petrimordella nearctica, Petrimordella nigrapilosa, Petrimordella oligocenica, Petrimordella priscula, Petrimordella protogaea, Petrimordella rasnitsyni, Petrimordella smithiana, Petrimordella stygia
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wilson Ranch, Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large horizon in the Florissant Formation of Colorado
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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