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Tumbling Lawyer Flower Beetle
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Tumbling Lawyer Flower Beetle

Mordellistena unicolor

Mordellistena unicolor is a species of beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described by John Lawrence LeConte in 1862. Larvae feed on gall tissue of the goldenrod gall fly and often consume the fly larvae within the gall as well.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 457040.