Mordellistena convicta is a beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1862 by John Lawrence LeConte.[1] It is an inquiline known to inhabit the galls of the goldenrod gall fly, wherein the beetle both feeds on the plant tissue and usually consumes the fly larvae inside the gall.[2]
| Mordellistena convicta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Mordellidae |
| Genus: | Mordellistena |
| Species: | M. convicta
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| Binomial name | |
| Mordellistena convicta LeConte, 1862
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References
edit- ^ Mordellidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University, archived from the original on 7 October 2014, retrieved 8 August 2015
- ^ Abrahamson, Warren G.; Eubanks, Micky D.; Blair, Catherine P.; Whipple, Amy V. (August 2001). "Gall Flies, Inquilines, and Goldenrods: A Model for Host-race Formation and Sympatric Speciation". American Zoologist. 41 (4): 928–938. doi:10.1093/icb/41.4.928. Retrieved 30 October 2022.