Mordella

Mordella
	Mordella aculeata
Systematics
Class :	Insects (Insecta)
Order :	Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination :	Polyphaga
Superfamily :	Tenebrionoidea
Family :	Sting beetles (Mordellidae)
Genre :	Mordella
Scientific name
	Mordella
	Linnaeus , 1758

Mordella is a genus of the sting beetle family. It comprises more than 500 species and is distributed worldwide. The adult beetles of this genus often stay in flowers. The genus was described by Carl von Linné in 1758using the type species Mordella aculeata . Thegenus Sphalera ,describedby John Lawrence LeConte in 1859 , is not regarded today as a separate genus, but as part of Mordella .

features

Beetles of the genus Mordella have a wedge-shaped, predominantly black-colored body. Your eyes reach the back of the head (occiput) and have a grainy structure. Their antennae are more or less sawed or end club-shaped. The last segment of the lower jaw palpus (maxillary palpus) is long and more or less pronounced triangular. The scutellum is triangular. The rails (tibia) of the hind legs have a short subapical furrow, but otherwise, like the tarsi, they are furrowless. The anal process is long and slender.

Individual evidence

↑ Ross H. Arnett, JR Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, J. Howard Frank: American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, Volume 2. CRC Press, 2002, p. 427.
^ Laporte, JL / Laporte, Ernest: Faune entomologique, ou histoire naturelle des insectes qui se trouvent dans le département de la Gironde . In: Actes de la société linnéenne de Bordeaux . tape 17 , 1851, pp. 153–180 (information on p. 163) (French, biodiversitylibrary.org ).
^ ^A ^b Emil Liljeblad: Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, north of Mexico . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1945, pp. 30 (English, full text ).

Web links

European beetle: genus Mordella L.

[American_Beetles-1] Ross H. Arnett, JR Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, J. Howard Frank: American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, Volume 2. CRC Press, 2002, p. 427.

[Laporte-2] Laporte, JL / Laporte, Ernest: Faune entomologique, ou histoire naturelle des insectes qui se trouvent dans le département de la Gironde . In: Actes de la société linnéenne de Bordeaux . tape 17 , 1851, pp. 153–180 (information on p. 163) (French, biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[Liljeblad-3] A ^b Emil Liljeblad: Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, north of Mexico . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1945, pp. 30 (English, full text ).