Family Mordellidae Latreille 1802 (tumbling flower beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Bellimordellidae, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Cretanaspis, Elodophthalmidae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mirimordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Praemordellidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Samlandotoma, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Wuhuidae, Zopheridae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection), United States (2: Colorado, Washington)

• Miocene of Mexico (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Poland (2), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Colorado, Montana)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)

Total: 26 collections including 54 occurrences

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