Pleocoma rickseckeri is a species of rain beetle in the family Pleocomidae.[1][2][3][4][5] It is found in North America.[1] It was named in honor of Lucius Edgar Ricksecker.[6]
| Pleocoma rickseckeri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Pleocomidae |
| Genus: | Pleocoma |
| Species: | P. rickseckeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleocoma rickseckeri Horn, 1888
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References
edit- ^ a b "Pleocoma rickseckeri Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ "Pleocoma rickseckeri species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ "Pleocoma rickseckeri". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ "Pleocoma rickseckeri Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ "Pleocoma rickseckeri Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ Fall, H. C. (1913). "Obituary. L. E. Ricksecker". Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 24 (5): 239–240 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Further reading
edit- 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.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 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" (PDF). 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.