| Asclera | |
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| Asclera puncticollis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Oedemeridae |
| Tribe: | Asclerini |
| Genus: | Asclera |
Asclera is a genus of false blister beetles in the family Oedemeridae. There are about six described species in Asclera.[1][2]
Asclera ruficollis
Species
- Asclera auripilis VanDyke, 1946
- Asclera discolor LeConte, 1874
- Asclera excavata LeConte, 1852
- Asclera nigra LeConte, 1852
- Asclera puncticollis (Say, 1823)
- Asclera ruficollis (Say, 1823) (red-necked false blister beetle)
References
- ↑ "Asclera Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ↑ "Asclera Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- 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.
- Kriska, Nadine L. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 109. Oedemeridae Latreille 1810". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 514–519.
Further reading
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Asclera
- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- 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.
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