Microcara

Microcara
Microcara testacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Scirtidae
Genus:Microcara
Thomson, 1859

Microcara is a genus of marsh beetles in the family Scirtidae. There are about six described species in Microcara.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These six species belong to the genus Microcara:

  • Microcara dispar Seidlitz, 1872 g
  • Microcara dufaui Legros, 1947 g
  • Microcara explanata (LeConte, 1866) i c g b
  • Microcara omissa Klausnitzer, 1972 g
  • Microcara pilosula Reitter, 1911 g
  • Microcara testacea (Linnaeus, 1767) g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Microcara Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Microcara". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  3. 1 2 "Microcara". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  4. 1 2 "Microcara Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
  • Young, Daniel K. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H., eds. Family 37. Scirtidae Fleming 1821. American Beetles vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 87–89. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.

  • Media related to Microcara at Wikimedia Commons


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