| Loricera | |
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| Loricera foveata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Loricerinae |
| Tribe: | Loricerini |
| Genus: | Loricera Latreille, 1802 |
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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]
These 17 species belong to the genus Loricera:
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Bradybaenus is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
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