Asclera is a genus of false blister beetles in the family Oedemeridae. There are about six described species in Asclera.
Species Asclera auripilis Van Dyke, 1946 Asclera discolor LeConte, 1874 Asclera excavata LeConte, 1852 Asclera nigra LeConte, 1852 Asclera puncticollis (Say, 1823) Asclera ruficollis (Say, 1823) (red-necked false blister beetle)
References
Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (1983). "Family 119. Oedemeridae, The False Blister Beetles". Checklist of the Beetles of North and Central America and the West Indies, 6. Kriska, Nadine L. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 109. Oedemeridae Latreille 1810". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 514–519.
Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Asclera Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida . Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.