Loricerins ( lat. Loricerinae ) - a subfamily from the family of ground beetles, including about 10 species. In Russia, 1 species.
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| Loricerinae Bonelli , 1810 |
Description
Small ground beetles measuring 5-7 mm.
Biology
Nocturnal lifestyle. Predators
Classification
The subfamily includes only 1 genus Loricera Latreille (with subgenera: Elliptosoma Wollaston, Loricera Latreille, Plesioloricera Sciaky et Facchini) and 11 species distributed in the northern hemisphere. The fauna of Russia includes 1 species.
- Tribe Loricerini Bonelli, 1810
- Genus Loricera Latreille, 1802.
- Loricera foveata LeConte, 1851
- Loricera rotundicollis Chaudoir, 1863
- Loricera aptera Ball & Erwin, 1969
- Loricera barbarae Sciaky et Facchini, 1999
- Loricera decempunctata Eschscholtz, 1833
- Loricera kryzhanowskiji Sciaky et Facchini, 1999 - China: Qinghai Xizang (Tibet)
- Loricera mirabilis Jedlicka, 1932d: 107
- Loricera obsoleta Semenov, 1889d: 391
- Loricera ovipennis Semenov, 1889d: 390
- Loricera pilicornis Fabricius, 1775: 293 (Carabus) - Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Belarus, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Moldova, Mongolia, DPRK, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine [1]
- Loricera stevensi Andrewes, 1920c: 449
- Genus Loricera Latreille, 1802.
Literature
- Kryzhanovsky O. L. 1983: Loricerini tribe // Fauna of the USSR, Coleopterans (Volume I, issue 2) .- Leningrad, “Science”, 229.
- Lafer G. Sh. 1989: Subfamily. Loricerinae // Key to insects of the Far East of the USSR (Volume III, Part 1) .- Leningrad, “Science”, 126.
- Ball GE, Erwin TL 1969: A taxonomic synopsis of the tribe Loricerini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) // Canadian Journal of Zoology, 47: 877-907.
- Bousquet Y. 2003: Subfamily Loricerinae, pp. 98-99. - In I. Lobl & A. Smetana (editors): Catalog of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1.- Stenstrup, Apollo books, 819 pp.
- Kryzhanovskij OL et al. 1995: A Checklist of the ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands (Coleoptera, Carabidae). - Sofia: Pensoft Series Faunist. 3, 271 pp.
Notes
Links
- www.zin.ru
- Carabidae of the World Database (CWD) (2008): Trees of family Carabidae . Retrieved 2008-JUL-24.