MORDELLIDAE Latreille, 1802
(a family of tumbling flower beetles)

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Species 24 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyMORDELLIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles)
SuperfamilyTENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Batten, R. 1986 A Review of the British Mordellidae (Coleoptera) Ent. Gazette 37: 225-235.
Batten, R 1976 De Nederlandse soorten van de keverfamilie Mordellidae [The Dutch species of the beetle family Mordellidae] Zoologische Budragen Vol 19: 3-37,2 plates.
Buck, F.D. 1954 *** Coleoptera: Lagriidae, Alleculidae, Tetratomidae, Melandryidae etc ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol V. Part 9, 30pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

MORDELLIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MORDELLIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 5 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MORDELLIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles)
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