Loricera Latreille, 1802

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 259

Genus Loricera Latreille, 1802

Loricera Latreille, 1802: 88. Type species: Carabus pilicornis Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy. Etymology. Probably from the Greek loron (thong) and ceras (horn, by extension antenna) [feminine].

Lorocera Agassiz, 1846: 216. Unjustified emendation of Loricera Latreille, 1802.

Diversity.

Thirteen species in the Nearctic (three species, one of them Holarctic), Neotropical (two species in mountains of Middle America), and Palaearctic (nine species) Regions arrayed in three subgenera: Elliptosoma Wollaston (one species from Madeira), Loricera s.str. (11 species), and Plesioloricera Sciaky and Facchini (one species from Szechwan, China).

Identification.

Ball and Erwin (1969: 883) published a key to all species then known, including the three found in North America. Lindroth (1961a: 121-125) covered the Nearctic species.