Cephalota

Cephalota
Cephalota circumdata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Cicindelidae
Tribe:	Cicindelini
Subtribe:	Cicindelina
Genus:	Cephalota Dokhtouroff, 1883
Subgenera
CassolaiaWiesner, 1985 CephalotaDokhtouroff, 1883 TaenidiaRivalier, 1950

Cephalota is a genus in the beetle family Cicindelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Cephalota. ^{[1] [2]}

Cephalota maura

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Cephalota:

• Subgenus CassolaiaWiesner, 1985
  • Cephalota maura (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Subgenus CephalotaDokhtouroff, 1883
  • Cephalota hispanica (Gory, 1833)
  • Cephalota luctuosa (Dejean, 1831)
  • Cephalota pseudodeserticola (W.Horn, 1891)
  • Cephalota turcica (Schaum, 1859)
• Subgenus TaenidiaRivalier, 1950
  • Cephalota atrata (Pallas, 1776)
  • Cephalota besseri (Dejean, 1826)
  • Cephalota chiloleuca (Fischer von Waldheim, 1820)
  • Cephalota circumdata (Dejean, 1822)
  • Cephalota deserticola (Faldermann, 1836)
  • Cephalota deserticoloides (Codina, 1931)
  • Cephalota dulcinea Lopez; de la Rosa & Baena, 2006
  • Cephalota eiselti (Mandl, 1967)
  • Cephalota elegans (Fischer von Waldheim, 1823)
  • Cephalota galathea (Thieme, 1881)
  • Cephalota hajdajorum Gebert, 2016
  • Cephalota illecebrosa (Dokhtouroff, 1885)
  • Cephalota jakowlewi (Semenov, 1896)
  • Cephalota kutshumi (Putchkov, 1993)
  • Cephalota littorea (Forskål, 1775)
  • Cephalota schrenkii (Gebler, 1841)
  • Cephalota susanneae Gebert, 1994
  • Cephalota tibialis (Dejean, 1822)
  • Cephalota turcosinensis (Mandl, 1938)
  • Cephalota vartianorum (Mandl, 1967)
  • Cephalota vonderdeckeni Gebert, 1992
  • Cephalota zarudniana (Tschitscherine, 1903)

References

1. "Cephalota Dokhtouroff, 1883". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
2. Duran, Daniel P.; Gough, Harlan M. (2020). "Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), review and reclassification of tribal relationships". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4). doi: 10.1111/syen.12440 .

External links

• Media related to Cephalota at Wikimedia Commons