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Mordellini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Taxonomy

Mordellini was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant.

It was assigned to Mordellinae by Bouchard et al. (2011), Batelka et al. (2023), Batelka et al. (2025).

Subtaxa

Baltimorda, Mordella, Primaevomordellida, Succimorda, Tomoxia

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1802	Mordellini Latreille p. 183
2011	Mordellini Bouchard et al.
2023	Mordellini Batelka et al. p. 454
2025	Mordellini Batelka et al. p. 803

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	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
tribe	Mordellini

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.

Tr. Mordellini Latreille 1802

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G. †Baltimorda Batelka et al. 2023

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†Baltimorda friedrichi Perkovsky and Odnosum 2013

†Baltimorda scheelei Ermisch 1941

†Baltimorda succinea Bao et al. 2018

G. Mordella Linnaeus 1758

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Mordella atrata Melsheimer 1843

G. †Primaevomordellida Bao et al. 2018

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†Primaevomordellida burmitina Bao et al. 2018

G. †Succimorda Kubisz 2001

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†Succimorda rubromaculata Kubisz 2001

G. Tomoxia Costa 1854

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 Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 100.50000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Myanmar	Primaevomordellida burmitina (161726)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	Succimorda rubromaculata (123215) Tomoxia succinea (110737)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	Mordella sp. (123419)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Baltimorda sp. A, Baltimorda sp. B (207812) Mordella scheelei (123771) Mordellaria friedrichi (123964)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Colorado)	Mordella atrata (169353)