Laccopterum

Belongs within: Scaritinae.

Laccopterum is an Australian genus of scaritine ground beetles characterised by ovate and foveate elytra, tridentate anterior tibiae and two supra-orbital punctures.

<==Laccopterum Macleay 1878 [=Laccoscaphus Sloane 1905]LM87
    |--L. macleayi Sloane 1897 [=Carenum spencei Macleay 1878 non Westwood 1841, *Laccopterum spencei]LM87
    |--L. cyaneum (Fabricius 1775) (see below for synonymy)LM87
    |--L. darwiniense (Macleay 1878) [=Carenum darwiniense]LM87
    |--L. deauratum (Macleay 1864) [=Carenum deauratum]LM87
    |--L. doddi (Sloane 1916) [=Laccoscaphus doddi; incl. Laccoscaphus doddi triordinata Sloane 1917]LM87
    |--L. foveigerum (Chaudoir 1868) [=Carenum foveigerum]LM87
    |--L. foveipenne (Macleay 1873) [=Carenum foveipenne]LM87
    |--L. foveolatum (Macleay 1864) [=Carenum foveolatum]LM87
    |--L. gemmatum (Westwood 1842) [=Carenum gemmatum]LM87
    |--L. humerale Sloane 1900LM87
    |--L. lacunosum Macleay 1887LM87
    |--L. loculosum (Newman 1842) [=Carenum loculosum; incl. C. variolosum Macleay 1864]LM87
    |--L. multiimpressum (Castelnau 1867) [=Carenum multiimpressum]LM87
    |--L. quadriseriatum (Sloane 1907) [=Laccoscaphus quadriseriatus]LM87
    |--L. salebrosum (Macleay 1871) [=Carenum salebrosum]LM87
    `--L. spencei (Westwood 1841) [=Carenum spencei; incl. C. digglesi Macleay 1873 non Eutoma digglesi Macleay 1869]LM87

Laccopterum cyaneum (Fabricius 1775) [=Scarites cyaneus; incl. Laccoscaphus cyaneus aenescens Sloane 1923, Carenum fabricii Westwood 1842]^LM87

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.