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Tribe Cicindelini - Flashy Tiger Beetles

Tiger Beetle - Cicindela scutellaris Cicindela punctulata Cicindela denikei Very Dark C. oregona oregona - Cicindela oregona Intergrade subspecies : C. (H.) dosalis venusta x saulcyi - Habroscelimorpha dorsalis Sidewalk Tiger Beetle - Cicindela punctulata Tiger Beetle Cicindela sp. - Cicindela nebraskana What kind of Tiger Beetle is this? - Cicindela sexguttata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Cicindelinae (Tiger Beetles)
Tribe Cicindelini (Flashy Tiger Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The species in the tribe Cicindelini were formerly placed in a single genus (Cicindela) until Erwin and Pearson (2008) elevated most of its included subgenera to genus rank. These include Brasiella, Cylindera, Dromochorus, Ellipsoptera, Eunota, Habroscelimorpha, and Opilidia.
Numbers
Nearctica (1) lists 94 species for North America (all under the genus Cicindela).
Identification
Food
All members of this tribe are predaceous on other insects as both adults and larvae.
Life Cycle
Species in this tribe are often observed in pairs--often this is mate guarding, where the male stays in contact with the female after actual mating in order to prevent further matings.
Remarks
Two North American species of this tribe are listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as endangered (Cicindela ohlone and Ellipsoptera nevadica lincolniana), and two are listed as threatened (Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsalis and Ellipsoptera puritana).
See Also
Marsh Ground Beetles (genus Elaphrus) resemble miniature tiger beetles [length 10 mm or less] whose elytra are covered with uniformly-distributed large circular spots in most species.
Print References
Erwin, T. L. and D. L. Pearson. 2008. A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume II (Carabidae-Nebriiformes 2-Cicindelitae). Pensoft Series Faunistica 84. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 400 pp.