Loricera

Loricera is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole genus of the subfamily Loricerinae. There are about 17 described species in Loricera.^[1][2]

Loricera
Loricera foveata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Loricerinae
Tribe:	Loricerini
Genus:	Loricera Latreille, 1802
Subgenera
Elliptosoma Wollaston, 1854 Loricera Latreille, 1802 Plesioloricera Sciaky & Facchini, 1999
Synonyms
Dolichodes

Loricera pilicornis

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Loricera:

• Elliptosoma Wollaston, 1854
  • Loricera wollastonii Javet, 1852 (Madeira and Europe)
• Plesioloricera Sciaky & Facchini, 1999
  • Loricera balli Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
• Loricera
  • Loricera aptena Ball & Erwin, 1969 (Mexico)
  • Loricera barbarae Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
  • Loricera decempunctata Eschscholtz, 1833 (North America)
  • Loricera foveata LeConte, 1851 (North America)
  • Loricera kryzhanovskiji Sciaky & Facchini, 1999 (China)
  • Loricera mirabilis Jedlicka, 1932 (China)
  • Loricera obsoleta Semenov, 1889 (China)
  • Loricera ovipennis Semenov, 1889 (China)
  • Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius, 1775) (Palearctic)
  • Loricera rotundicollis Chaudoir, 1863 (Guatemala and Mexico)
  • Loricera stevensi Andrewes, 1920 (India and Nepal)
• Unplaced
  • † Loricera electrica Klausnitzer, 2003
  • † Loricera exita Scudder, 1900
  • † Loricera glacialis Scudder, 1877
  • † Loricera groehni Cai; Liu & Huang, 2017