Asclera

For the drug, see ASCLERA.

Asclera
Asclera puncticollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Oedemeridae
Tribe:	Asclerini
Genus:	Asclera Stephens, 1839

Asclera is a genus of false blister beetles in the family Oedemeridae. There are about six described species in Asclera. ^{[1] [2]}

Asclera ruficollis

Species

• Asclera auripilis Van Dyke, 1946
• Asclera discolor LeConte, 1874
• Asclera excavata LeConte, 1852
• Asclera nigra LeConte, 1852
• Asclera puncticollis (Say, 1823)
• Asclera ruficollis (Say, 1823) (red-necked false blister beetle)

References

• Insects portal

1. "Asclera Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Asclera Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (1983). "Family 119. Oedemeridae, The False Blister Beetles". Checklist of the Beetles of North and Central America and the West Indies, 6.
• Kriska, Nadine L. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 109. Oedemeridae Latreille 1810". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 514–519.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Asclera
• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN   978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.