
''Loricera'' is a genus of ground beetles in the family
Carabidae
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...
, the sole genus of the subfamily Loricerinae. There are about 17 described species in ''Loricera''.
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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
''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''.
Species
These 17 species belong to the genus ''Loricera'':
* ''Elliptosoma'' ...
'' Semenov, 1889 (China)
** '' Loricera pilicornis'' (Fabricius, 1775) (Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
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** '' 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
External links
''Loricera pilicornis'' at Fauna Europaea
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Carabidae genera
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