Mordellistena variegata (Fabricius, 1798)
(a tumbling flower beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Mordellistena variegata (a tumbling flower beetle)
Genus	Mordellistena (a genus of tumbling flower beetles)
Family	MORDELLIDAE (a family of tumbling flower beetles)
Superfamily	TENEBRIONOIDEA (narrow timber beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Mordellistena variegata is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Telfer, M.G.	2011	Identification of Mordellistena neuwaldeggiana, humeralis and variegata	http://markgtelfer.co.uk/beetles/mordellidae/

Mordellistena variegata (a tumbling flower beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Mordellistena
(a genus of tumbling flower beetles)

MORDELLIDAE
(a family of tumbling flower beetles)

TENEBRIONOIDEA
(narrow timber beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Mordellistena variegata (a tumbling flower beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Mordellistena variegata (a tumbling flower beetle)

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Mordellistena variegata is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)