Paramordellaria is a genus of tumbling flower beetles in the family Mordellidae. There are at least two described species in Paramordellaria.[1][2][3][4][5]
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Paramordellaria carinata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Mordellidae |
Tribe: | Mordellini |
Genus: | Paramordellaria Ermisch, 1968 |
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Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog,[6] no longer online, shows Paramordellaria ivoirensis as the only species of Paramordellaria. GBIF,[3] ITIS,[1] and Catalogue of Life[2] list the two species P. carinata and P. triloba but not P. ivoirensis.
Species
editThese species belong to the genus Paramordellaria:
- Paramordellaria carinata (Smith, 1883) i c g b
- Paramordellaria ivoirensis Ermisch, 1968 doubtful
- Paramordellaria triloba (Say, 1824) i c g b
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Paramordellaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ a b c "Browse Paramordellaria". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ a b c "Paramordellaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ a b "Paramordellaria Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ "Paramordellaria Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ 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.
- Bright, Donald E. (1986). "Family: Mordellidae". A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture.
- Jackman, John A. (1991). "Notes on the nomenclature of Mordellidae of America north of Mexico". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 45 (4): 323–330. ISSN 0010-065X.
- 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
edit- Media related to Paramordellaria at Wikimedia Commons