Mordella violacescens

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| taxon = Mordella violacescens

| authority = Phillipi, 1864

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Mordella violacescens is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1864.{{citation |url=http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Mordellidae.txt|title=Mordellidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007081109/https://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Mordellidae.txt |archive-date=7 October 2014|access-date=9 August 2015|url-status=dead}}