Mordellistena

TaxID: 433127

Basic Information

Mordellistena

Tumbling Flower Beetles, kaposyöksykkäät

Mordellistena is a genus of tumbling flower beetles in the family Mordellidae. There are more than 450 described species in Mordellistena, found worldwide.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Mordellidae

Mordellistena

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Mike Quinn@BY-NC
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(c) Russell Pfau@BY-NC
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(c) Kimberly R Fleming@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Body length 3.8–4.16 mm. Dorsal surfaces with yellowish vestiture. Elytra relatively long and narrow, elytral length/width ratio 2.26–2.30. Hind tibia with black apical spines, one apical ridge, and two short lateral ridges nearly perpendicular to dorsal tibial margin. First four antennomeres slenderer than following segments. Male protibia expanded basally, with a cluster of long setae. Parameres characteristically shaped with long dorsal and ventral processes.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (1627 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
ZSEA994-25 BOLD:ACA7847 COI-5P 656 United Kingdom 2024-08-28 52.2632, 1.0133
YWTP3127-25 BOLD:ABW9458 COI-5P 658 United Kingdom 2024-09-17 53.497272, -1.109216
YWTP2128-24 BOLD:ABW9458 COI-5P 655 United Kingdom - 53.49689, -1.109348
YDBB1472-21 BOLD:AAP7072 COI-5P 653 Canada 2021-07-19 62.591, -136.865
YBIVV1542-23 BOLD:ACI2750 COI-5P 653 Canada 2023-06-26 62.591, -136.862
YARN5450-24 - COI-5P 654 United Kingdom - 50.598736, -3.7212300000000003
WTPV2014-24 BOLD:ABW9458 COI-5P 660 United Kingdom 2023-07-23 50.907738, 0.6849689999999999
WALW7259-25 BOLD:ACA7847 COI-5P 665 United Kingdom 2025-06-11 51.584854, -0.053971
USCOC250-10 BOLD:AAN5934 COI-5P 658 United States 2010-03-31 30.28895, -87.47497
USCOC241-10 BOLD:AAN5930 COI-5P 658 United States 2010-04-15 30.5563, -100.81208
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