Loricaster

Loricaster
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Clambidae
Genus:
Mulsant & Rey, 1861

Loricaster is a genus of minute beetles in the family Clambidae. There are at least three described species in Loricaster.[1][2][3]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Loricaster:

  • Loricaster cribripennis Reitter, 1904
  • Loricaster rotundus Grigarick & Schuster, 1961
  • Loricaster testaceus Mulsant & Rey, 1861

References

  1. ^ "Loricaster Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. ^ "Loricaster". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

  • Endrödy-Younga, Sebastian (1981). "The American Species of the Familia Clambidae (Coleoptera: Eucinetoidea)". Entomologia Generalis. 7 (1): 33–67. doi:10.1127/entom.gen/7/1981/33. ISSN 0171-8177.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.