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Loricera

Loricera is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole genus of the subfamily Loricerinae. There are about 17 described species in Loricera.

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Loricera
Loricera foveata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Loricerinae
Tribe: Loricerini
Genus: Loricera
Latreille, 1802
Subgenera
  • Elliptosoma Wollaston, 1854
  • Loricera Latreille, 1802
  • Plesioloricera Sciaky & Facchini, 1999
Synonyms
  • Dolichodes
Loricera pilicornis source ↗

Loricera is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole genus of the subfamily Loricerinae. There are about 17 described species in Loricera.12

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Loricera:

  • Elliptosoma Wollaston, 1854
    • Loricera wollastonii Javet, 1852 (Madeira and Europe)
  • Plesioloricera Sciaky & Facchini, 1999
    • Loricera balli Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
  • Loricera
    • Loricera aptena Ball & Erwin, 1969 (Mexico)
    • Loricera barbarae Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
    • Loricera decempunctata Eschscholtz, 1833 (North America)
    • Loricera foveata LeConte, 1851 (North America)
    • Loricera kryzhanovskiji Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
    • Loricera mirabilis Jedlicka, 1932 (China)
    • Loricera obsoleta Semenov, 1889 (China)
    • Loricera ovipennis Semenov, 1889 (China)
    • Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius, 1775) (Palearctic)
    • Loricera rotundicollis Chaudoir, 1863 (Guatemala and Mexico)
    • Loricera stevensi Andrewes, 1920 (India and Nepal)
  • Unplaced
    • Loricera electrica Klausnitzer, 2003
    • Loricera exita Scudder, 1900
    • Loricera glacialis Scudder, 1877
    • Loricera groehni Cai; Liu & Huang, 2017
References

References

  1. "Loricera Latreille, 1802". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  2. Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". ChecklistBank. doi:10.48580/dfqf-3dk. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
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