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]

Lepicerus
Lepicerus inaequalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Myxophaga
Superfamily: Lepiceroidea
Hinton, 1936
Family: Lepiceridae
Hinton, 1936
Genus: Lepicerus
Hinton, 1936

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. Jałoszyński, Paweł; Luo, Xiao-Zhu; Hammel, Jörg U.; Yamamoto, Shûhei & Beutel, Rolf G. (2020). "The mid-Cretaceous †Lepiceratus gen. nov. and the evolution of the relict beetle family Lepiceridae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Myxophaga)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (13). doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1747561
  • "Lepiceridae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.


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