Mordellochroa is a genus of tumbling flower beetles in the family Mordellidae. There are about nine described species in Mordellochroa.[1][2][3][4][5]
| Mordellochroa | |
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| Mordellochroa abdominalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Mordellidae |
| Tribe: | Mordellistenini |
| Genus: | Mordellochroa Emery, 1876 |
Species
editThese nine species belong to the genus Mordellochroa:
- Mordellochroa abdominalis (Fabricius, 1775) g
- Mordellochroa hasegawai Nomura & Kato, 1959
- Mordellochroa humerosa (Rosenhauer, 1847) g
- Mordellochroa milleri (Emery, 1876) g
- Mordellochroa pulchella (Mulsant & Rey, 1859) g
- Mordellochroa scapularis (Say, 1824) i c g b (gold-shouldered mordellid)
- Mordellochroa shibatai Kiyoyama, 1987 g
- Mordellochroa taiwana Kiyoyama, 1987 g
- Mordellochroa tournieri (Emery, 1876) g
- Mordellochroa yanoi (Nomura, 1951) g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mordellochroa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b "Browse Mordellochroa". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b "Mordellochroa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ a b "Mordellochroa Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ 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
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- LeConte, John L. (1862). "Synopsis of the Mordellidae of the United States". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 43–51.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- Lisberg, Anneke E. (2003). "Taxonomic changes for fifteen species of North American Mordellidae (Coleoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 17 (3–4): 191–194. ISSN 0749-6737.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
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