Lepicerus

Lepicerus is a genus of Myxophagan beetles containing three described species in the family Lepiceridae; it is the only extant genus in the family, with others known only from fossils.[1][2]

Lepiceridae
Lepicerus inaequalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Myxophaga
Family:
Lepiceridae

Hinton, 1936
Genus:
Lepicerus
Species

L. bufo
L. inaequalis
L. pichilingue

Species
  • Lepicerus bufo
  • Lepicerus inaequalis
  • Lepicerus pichilingue

References
  1. Ge, S.-Q., Friedrich, F. & Beutel, R.G. (2010) On the systematic position and taxonomic rank of the extinct myxophagan †Haplochelus (Coleoptera). Insect systematics & evolution 41(4): 329–338. DOI: 10.1163/187631210X537385
  2. Paweł Jałoszyński, Xiao-Zhu Luo, Jörg U. Hammel, Shûhei Yamamoto & Rolf G. Beutel (2020) The mid-Cretaceous †Lepiceratus gen. nov. and the evolution of the relict beetle family Lepiceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Myxophaga) doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1747561
  • "Lepiceridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.


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