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- Mordellidae abstract "The Mordellidae are a family of beetles commonly known as tumbling flower beetles for the typical irregular movements they make when escaping predators, or as pintail beetles due to their abdominal tip which aids them in performing these tumbling movements. Worldwide, there are about 1500 species.The apparently tumbling movements are composed of a series of very rapid separate jumps (each jump of a duration of approximately 80 ms). They result from the beetle's efforts to get itself back into take-off position for flight when it has been in either lateral or dorsal position. Each individual jump should be considered as an extended rotation, performed by one leg of the third leg pair (metapodium). Depending on whether the left or the right metapodium is used as the leg that provides the leverage for take-off, change occurs in the direction of the jump. The energy for propulsion varies with the beetle's immediate muscle work, so that jump lengths and heights vary, with rotation frequencies recorded up to 48 per second (Mordellochroa abdominalis) around the gravitation centre of the body's longitudinal axis. Additional revolving around the transverse axis (at lower frequency) effects spiralling summersaults that are perceived as tumbling. The pintail (pygidium) is of no significance for the jump. Technically similar jumps, though less powerful, can be observed in family Melandryidae (=Serropalpidae) (genus Orchesia) and family Scraptiidae (genus Anaspis). As both these groups of beetles are closely related to family Mordellidae, it may be assumed that it is due to their common phylogenetic roots that they have the same capacity of this tumbling form of locomotion. It can, therefore, not be ascribed specifically to Mordellidae.".
- Mordellidae class Insect.
- Mordellidae family Tenebrionoidea.
- Mordellidae kingdom Animal.
- Mordellidae order Beetle.
- Mordellidae phylum Arthropod.
- Mordellidae synonym "Liaoximordellidae".
- Mordellidae thumbnail Mordella_aculeata_MHNT_Profil.jpg?width=300.
- Mordellidae wikiPageExternalLink Mordellidae.
- Mordellidae wikiPageID "21719540".
- Mordellidae wikiPageLength "11794".
- Mordellidae wikiPageOutDegree "155".
- Mordellidae wikiPageRevisionID "678482735".
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Abdomen.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Adelptes.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Asiamordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Asiatolida.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Austromordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Basal_(phylogenetics).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Beetle.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Binaghia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Boatia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Brodskyella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Caffromorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Calyce_(genus).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Calycemorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Calyceoidea.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Calycina_(beetle).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Linnaeus.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mordellidae.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Cephaloglipa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Conalia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Conaliamorpha.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Conaliini.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Congomorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Cothurus.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Cretanaspis.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Ctenidia_(genus).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Curtimorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Dellamora.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Diversimorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Ermischiella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Fahraeusiella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Falsomordellina.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Falsomordellistena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Falsopseudomoxia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Francis_de_Laporte_de_Castelnau.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink George_Charles_Champion.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Glipa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Glipidiomorpha.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Glipodes.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Glipostena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Glipostenoda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Gymnostena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Hoshihananomia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Iberomorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Ideorhipistena_occipitalis.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Insect.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Isotrilophus.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink John_Lawrence_LeConte.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Klapperichimorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Larinomorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Liaoximordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Machairophora_(beetle).
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Macrotomoxia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Melandryidae.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mirimordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Monotypic_taxon.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordella_aculeata.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellapygium.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellaria.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellina.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellinae.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellistena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellistenalia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellistenochroa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellistenoda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellistenula.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellochroa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellochroidea.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordelloides.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordellopalpus.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Mordelloxena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Morphomordellochroa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Neocurtimorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Neomordellistena.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Neotomoxia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Ophthalmoconalia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Ophthalmoglipa.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Palmorda.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Paraconalia.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Paramordella.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Paramordellana.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Paramordellaria_ivoirensis.
- Mordellidae wikiPageWikiLink Paramordellistena.