''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.
[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). ] 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.
Species
* ''
Lepicerus bufo
''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.Jałoszyński, Paweł; Luo, Xiao-Z ...
''
* ''
Lepicerus inaequalis
''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.Jałoszyński, Paweł; Luo, Xiao- ...
''
* ''
Lepicerus pichilingue
''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.Jałoszyński, Paweł; Luo, Xiao- ...
''
* †''Lepicerus georissoides'' (Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2006)
Burmese amber, Myanmar
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
.
* †''Lepicerus mumia'' Jałoszyński and Yamamoto 2017 Burmese amber, Myanmar Cenomanian.
* †''Lepicerus pretiosus'' (Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2013)
[A. G. Kirejtshuk and G. Poinar. 2013. On the systematic position of the genera Lepiceroides gen. n. and Haplochelus, with notes on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the Myxophaga (Coleoptera). In D. Azar, M. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay (eds.), ''Insect Evolution in an Ambiferous and Stone Alphabet'' 55-69] Burmese amber, Myanmar Cenomanian
Extinct genera within Lepiceridae
* †''Lepiceratus'' Jałoszyński et al. 2020,
Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
References
External links
*
Myxophaga
Myxophaga genera
{{Myxophaga-stub