Cheilonycha

Cheilonycha
	Bicolored Mound-dwelling Tiger Beetle (Cheilonycha auripennis) at Parque Nacional das Emas, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Cicindelidae
Tribe:	Cicindelini
Subtribe:	Dromicina
Genus:	Cheilonycha ; Lacordaire, 1842

Last updated September 04, 2025

Cheilonycha is a genus in the beetle family Cicindelidae. There are at least three described species in Cheilonycha.^[1]^[2]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Cheilonycha:

Cheilonycha auripennis Lucas, 1857 (Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil)
Cheilonycha bucephalauripennis J.Moravec, 2019 (Brazil)
Cheilonycha chalybea (Dejean, 1825) (Brazil)

References

↑ "Cheilonycha Lacordaire, 1842". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
↑ 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 .

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[catlife-1] "Cheilonycha Lacordaire, 1842". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-17.

[Duran2020-2] 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 .

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