Pleocoma

Pleocoma is the only extant genus of rain beetles (family Pleocomidae) and is endemic to the Pacific states of North America.[1] Fossil remains of Pleocoma have been found in the Yixian Formation in China, suggesting beetles in this genus have existed in something like their present form since at least the Cretaceous period.[2] There are 27 described species in Pleocoma.[3][4][5][6]

Pleocoma
Pleocoma sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Pleocomidae
Genus:	Pleocoma LeConte, 1856

Species

• Pleocoma australis Fall, 1911 (southern rain beetle)
• Pleocoma badia Fall, 1917
• Pleocoma behrensii LeConte, 1874
• Pleocoma bicolor Linsley, 1935
• Pleocoma blaisdelli Linsley, 1938
• Pleocoma carinata Linsley, 1938
• Pleocoma conjungens Horn, 1888 (Santa Cruz rain beetle)
• Pleocoma crinita Linsley, 1938
• Pleocoma dubitabilis Davis, 1935
• Pleocoma fimbriata Leconte, 1856
• Pleocoma hirticollis Schaufuss, 1870
• Pleocoma hoppingi Fall, 1906
• Pleocoma hovorei La Rue, 2007
• Pleocoma linsleyi Hovore, 1971
• Pleocoma marquai Hovore, 1972
• Pleocoma minor Linsley, 1938
• Pleocoma octopagina Robertson, 1970
• Pleocoma oregonensis Leach, 1933
• Pleocoma puncticollis Rivers, 1889 (black rain beetle)
• Pleocoma rickseckeri Horn, 1888
• Pleocoma rubiginosa Hovore, 1972
• Pleocoma shastensis Van Dyke, 1933
• Pleocoma simi Davis, 1934
• Pleocoma sonomae Linsley, 1935
• Pleocoma staff Schaufuss, 1870
• Pleocoma trifoliata Linsley, 1938
• Pleocoma tularensis Leach, 1933

Fossil Species

• †Pleocoma dolichophylla Nikolajev & Ren, 2012[2]

References

1. Hovore, Frank T. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". unsm-ento.unl.edu. University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
2. Nikolajev, G. V.; Ren, D. (September 2012). "The earliest known species of the genus Pleocoma LeConte (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Pleocomidae) from the Mesozoic of China". Paleontological Journal. 46 (5): 495–498. doi:10.1134/S0031030112050061. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
3. "Pleocoma Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
4. "Pleocoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
5. "Pleocoma Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
6. "Browse Pleocoma". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-28.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
• 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.
• Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas". Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.