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Mordella

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Taxonomy

Mordella was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Mordellinae.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Mordellonae by Latreille (1802); to Mordellidae by Cockerell (1925), Statz (1952); and to Mordellini by Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

M. atrata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Mordella Linnaeus p. 420
1761	Mordella Linnaeus p. 228
1762	Mordella Geoffroy p. 353
1763	Mordella Scopoli p. 60
1764	Mordella Müller p. 22
1766	Mordella Schaeffer
1767	Mordella Linnaeus p. 682
1771	Mordella Forster p. 63
1775	Mordella Fabricius p. 262
1776	Mordella Müller p. 84
1796	Mordella Latreille p. 25
1798	Mordella Fabricius p. 127
1802	Mordella Latreille p. 184
1925	Mordella Cockerell p. 11
1952	Mordella Statz p. 3
2011	Mordella Bouchard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Tenebrionoidea
family	Mordellidae	()
subfamily	Mordellinae
tribe	Mordellini
genus	Mordella

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Mordella Linnaeus 1758

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Mordella atrata Melsheimer 1843

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.71000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	M. sp. (123419)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Colorado)	M. atrata (169353)