Cephalota

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

Cephalota maura

Cephalota
Cephalota circumdata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cicindelidae
Tribe:	Cicindelini
Subtribe:	Cicindelina
Genus:	Cephalota Dokhtouroff, 1883
Subgenera
Cassolaia Wiesner, 1985 Cephalota Dokhtouroff, 1883 Taenidia Rivalier, 1950

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Cephalota:

• 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 hispanica (Gory, 1833)
• Cephalota illecebrosa (Dokhtouroff, 1885)
• Cephalota jakowlewi (Semenov, 1896)
• Cephalota kutshumi (Putchkov, 1993)
• Cephalota littorea (Forskål, 1775)
• Cephalota luctuosa (Dejean, 1831)
• Cephalota maura (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cephalota pseudodeserticola (W.Horn, 1891)
• Cephalota schrenkii (Gebler, 1841)
• Cephalota susanneae Gebert, 1994
• Cephalota tibialis (Dejean, 1822)
• Cephalota turcica (Schaum, 1859)
• 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