Biology:Cephalota elegans

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Short description: Species of beetle


Cephalota elegans
Cicindela elegans from Jacobson.jpg
Illustration from the monograph by Georgiy Jacobson “Beetles Russia and the Western Europe” (1905).
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C. elegans
Binomial name
Cephalota elegans
Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
Subspecies

Cephalota elegans brunnea (Putchkov, 1993) - Ukraine[1]
Cephalota elegans elegans (Fischer von Waldheim, 1824)
Cephalota elegans stigmatophora (Fischer von Waldheim, 1825)[2] - S. Ukraine

Synonyms

Cicindela elegans Fourcroy & Geoffroy, 1785[3]

Cephalota elegans is a ground beetle species in the genus Cephalota. European-Siberian steppe species. Body length 12-15 mm. Top copper or bronze-green with a white pattern on elytra. Legs and underparts with a metallic sheen. Head with powerful long jagged mandibles. Beetles and larvae are typical diurnal predators. Beetles fly well and run fast. Larvae live in vertical mink.


References

  1. Cephalota elegans brunnea on www.carabidae.ru
  2. Cephalota elegans on www.biolib.cz
  3. Fourcroy, A. F. de 1785. Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quæ in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundam methodam Geoffrœanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivialia & fere trecentæ novæ species. Pars prima. - pp. I-VII [= 1-7], [1], 1-231. Parisiis. (Hôtel Serpente).

Wikidata ☰ Q5063342 entry