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 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.

Lepicerus Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Lepicerus inaequalis
Scientific classification
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

Species

• Lepicerus bufo (Hinton, 1936)
• Lepicerus inaequalis Motschulsky, 1855
• Lepicerus pichilingue Flowers, Shepard & Troya, 2010

Three additional species are known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) as inclusions in Burmese amber from Myanmar.

• †Lepicerus georissoides (Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2006) ^[3]
• †Lepicerus mumia Jałoszyński & Yamamoto, 2017 ^[4]
• †Lepicerus pretiosus (Kirejtshuk and Poinar, 2013)^[5]

Extinct Lepiceridae genera

• †Lepiceratus Jałoszyński et al. 2020^[2] Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar