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Praemordellinae (disused)
Taxonomy
Praemordellinae was named by Shchegoleva-Barovskaya (1929). Its type is Praemordella.
It was synonymized subjectively with Mordellidae by Bouchard et al. (2011); it was reranked as the family Praemordellidae by Batelka et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Mordellidae by Shchegoleva-Barovskaya (1929), Liu et al. (2008), Batelka et al. (2018), Bao et al. (2019), Cai et al. (2022); and to Tenebrionoidea by Batelka et al. (2025).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mordellidae by Bouchard et al. (2011); it was reranked as the family Praemordellidae by Batelka et al. (2025).
It was assigned to Mordellidae by Shchegoleva-Barovskaya (1929), Liu et al. (2008), Batelka et al. (2018), Bao et al. (2019), Cai et al. (2022); and to Tenebrionoidea by Batelka et al. (2025).
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2012-01-22; modified by M. Clapham on 2015-07-26
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Praemordellinae Shchegoleva-Barovskaya p. 27 |
| 2008 | Praemordellinae Liu et al. p. 446 |
| 2018 | Praemordellinae Batelka et al. |
| 2019 | Praemordellinae Bao et al. p. 249 |
| 2022 | Praemordellinae Cai et al. |
| 2025 | Praemordellidae Batelka et al. p. 802 |
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Subfm. †Praemordellinae Shchegoleva-Barovskaya 1929
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available