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Asclera

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Asclera
Asclera puncticollis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
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

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References

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  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

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  • 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.