Lepicerus

Lepicerus
Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent
Lepicerus inaequalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Myxophaga
Superfamily: Lepiceroidea
Hinton, 1936
Family: Lepiceridae
Hinton, 1936
Genus: Lepicerus
Motschulsky, 1855
Synonyms
Family synonymy
  • Cyathoceridae Sharp, 1882
  • Haplochelidae Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2006
Genus synonymy
  • Cyathocerus Sharp, 1882
  • Haplochelus Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2006
  • Lepiceroides Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2013
  • Lepichelus Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2017

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 another genus, Lepiceratus only known from fossils.[1][2] Extant species occur in the Neotropics, from Mexico south to Venezuela and Ecuador. Fossils referrable to the genus are known from the early Late Cretaceous of Southeast Asia.

  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