Biology:Amblycheila hoversoni

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Short description: Species of beetle


Amblycheila hoversoni
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cicindelidae
Genus: Amblycheila
Species:
A. hoversoni
Binomial name
Amblycheila hoversoni
Gage, 1990

Amblycheila hoversoni, also known as the South Texas giant tiger beetle, is a flightless and nocturnal tiger beetle species found in south and west-central Texas , United States . First described in 1990, it is the largest tiger beetle species in the Western Hemisphere.[1]

References

  1. Pearson, David L.; Knisley, C. Barry; Duran, Daniel P.; Kazilek, Charles J. (2015). A field guide to the tiger beetles of the United States and Canada: Identification, natural history, and distribution of the Cicindelinae (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9780199367160. https://books.google.com/books?id=-eISDAAAQBAJ&q=hoversoni&pg=PA55. Retrieved 23 May 2016. 

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