The tiger beetles of Arkansas, Louisiana,and Mississippi (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).
Nagano, C. Population status of the tiger beetles of the genusCicindela (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) inhabiting the marine shoreline ofSouthern California.
A molecular phylogeny of the tigerbeetles (Cicindelidae): congruence of mitochondrial and nuclear rDNA datasets.
(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) with emphasis on the (mostly) Neotropical genera Phaeoxantha and Tetracha.
Zerm, M. and Adis, J. Spatio-temporal distribution of larval and adult tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from open areas in Central Amazonian floodplains (Brazil).- Studies an Neotropical Fauna and Environment 36 (3): 185-198.
Arndt, E., Zerm, M. and Adis, J. (2002): Key to the larval tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of Central Amazonian floodplains (Brazil).- Amazoniana 17(1/2): 95-108.
"Most taxonomists recognize Cicindelidae as a legitimate family of the Coleoptera within the suborder Adephaga.
However, as recently as 1979, taxonomists have considered them merely to be a subfamily (Cicindelinae) of the Carabidae (Ball, 1979) based on the similarities in structure and behavior."-- Knisley & Schultz (4)
Pearson, D.L. The function of multiple anti-predator mechanisms in adult tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).
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A survey of Missouri tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A survey of Missouri tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
Tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) were surveyed in Missouri during 2000-2001 to determine their temporal and spatial distribution, habitat preference, behavior, abundance, and status within the state.
To date, 23 species and one subspecies have been documented in the survey, one of which, Cicindela trifasciata ascendens, is a new record for the state.
Formerly they were all classed under one family, the Cicindelidae, but of late years, in accordance with the ever-growing mania for subdivision and over-refining, they have been split up into a number of families, the first of which are the Mantichoridae, a group of which we have no British representative.
The name is a very curious one, and I will explain it before describing the insect which is our representative of the tribe to which it belongs.
As to the arrangement of this large and important group of insects, there have been, and are still, many conflicting opinions.
The Cicindelidae, or Tiger Beetles are a common and popular family of Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga).
They are a well established family dating from the early cretaceous, there are more than 1 000 named species, 850 of which occur in the genus Cicindela
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