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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Loricerinae » Loricerini » Loricera » Loricera pilicornis

Species Loricera pilicornis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited

bristly-antennaed carabid - Loricera pilicornis

Loricera pilicornis — Larva - Loricera pilicornis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Loricerinae

Tribe Loricerini

Genus Loricera

Species pilicornis (Loricera pilicornis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Loricera semipunctata Eschscholtz 1833

Loricera calfornica LeConte 1863

Loricera neoscotica LeConte 1863

Loricera uteana Casey 1920

Loricera pilicornis sierrae Van Dyke 1925

Explanation of Names

Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius 1775)

pilicornis = 'hairy antenna'

Numbers

Besides the nominate subspecies, the holarctic subspecies L. p. congesta Mannerheim is known from AK(1)

Size

7.0-8.5 mm

Identification

Black, usually with pronounced, often greenish or bluish lustre, elytra commonly more or less rufinistic, tibiae, mandibles and palpi more or less pale. Prothorax with sides less, or not at all, sinuate posteriorly, hind angles obtuse or rounded. Elytra with three foveae on 4th interval (exceptionally with one on 7th interval of one elytron, but not both).

Range

holarctic; transcontinental in NA (AK-NF south to CA-n.NM-NE-WV)(2)

Habitat

Hygrophilous, usually at fresh, often standing water, on rich soil, more or less shaded.

Life Cycle

Overwinters as adults

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mexico Y. Bousquet and A. Larochelle. 1993. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 125: 1-397.

2.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 8 July, 2006 - 2:47pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 2 August, 2018 - 8:35pm

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