''Asclera ruficollis'', the red-necked false blister beetle, is a species of false blister beetle in the family
Oedemeridae
The family Oedemeridae is a cosmopolitan group of beetles commonly known as false blister beetles, though some recent authors have coined the name pollen-feeding beetles. There are some 100 genera and 1,500 species in the family, mostly associate ...
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It is found in North America.
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References
* Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (1983). "Family 119. Oedemeridae, The False Blister Beetles". ''Checklist of the Beetles of North and Central America and the West Indies'', 6.
Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Asclera ruficollis''
* Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Oedemeridae
Beetles described in 1823
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