Oxacis

Oxacis
Oxacis pallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Oedemeridae
Tribe:	Asclerini
Genus:	Oxacis LeConte, 1866

Oxacis is a genus of false blister beetles in the family Oedemeridae. There are at least 30 described species in Oxacis. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Oxacis trirossi

Species

These 30 species belong to the genus Oxacis: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Oxacis angustata Champion, 1890
• Oxacis barbara Arnett, 1956
• Oxacis bernadettei Arnett, 1963
• Oxacis bernatettei Arnett, 1963
• Oxacis bitomentosa Arnett, 1960
• Oxacis caerulea Champion, 1890 (blue oedemerid)
• Oxacis cana (LeConte, 1854)
• Oxacis coahuilae Champion, 1890
• Oxacis dugesi Champion, 1890
• Oxacis fragilis Horn, 1896
• Oxacis francesca Arnett, 1963
• Oxacis granulata LeConte, 1866
• Oxacis josephi Arnett, 1963
• Oxacis laeta (Waterhouse, 1878)
• Oxacis laevicollis Horn, 1896
• Oxacis marianna Arnett, 1970
• Oxacis megathoracica Arnett, 1960
• Oxacis michaeli Arnett, 1963
• Oxacis minuta Champion, 1890
• Oxacis nitens Arnett, 1956
• Oxacis nitidicollis Champion, 1890
• Oxacis pallida (LeConte, 1854)
• Oxacis plumbea Champion, 1890
• Oxacis rugicollis Champion, 1890
• Oxacis sericea Horn, 1870
• Oxacis subfusca Horn, 1896
• Oxacis taeniata (LeConte, 1854)
• Oxacis trimaculata Champion, 1890 (false blister beetle)
• Oxacis trirossi Arnett, 1964
• Oxacis xerensis Arnett, 1960

References

1. "Oxacis Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
2. "Oxacis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
3. "Oxacis Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
4. "Browse Oxacis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-06.

Further reading

• 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. Flora & Fauna Publications. ISBN   0-916846-19-9.
• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Kriska, Nadine L. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 109. Oedemeridae Latreille 1810. American Beetles Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea Through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 514–519. ISBN   0-8493-0954-9.
• Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN   978-83-935107-9-5.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Oxacis at Wikimedia Commons