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Carabidae Latreille, 1802 - Tiger Beetles & Ground Beetles |
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Caraboidea
Family: Carabidae
Tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest species of tiger beetle can run at a speed of 9 km/h (5.6 mph), which, relative to its body length, is about 22 times the speed of former Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson, the equivalent of a human running at 480 miles per hour (770 km/h). As of 2005, about 2,600 species and subspecies were known, with the richest diversity in the Oriental (Indo-Malayan) region, followed by the Neotropics. Wiki
Subfamily: Cicindelinae Latreille, 1802
Tribe: Cicindelini Latreille, 1802
Genera: Cicindela, Lophyra, Lophyridia, Prothyma, Therates
Cicindela aurulenta juxtata
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Cicindela cariana
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Cicindela duponti barmanica
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Cicindela flavomaculata
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Cicindela mouhoti elegantula
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Lophyra lineifrons
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Lophyridia funerea assimilis
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Prothyma cassolai
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Therates pseudoprobsti
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Tribe: Collyridini Brulle, 1834
Genera: Collyris, Neocollyris
Collyris gigas
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Neocollyris bonellii bonellii
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Neocollyris tricolor
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Neocollyris variitarsis
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Subfamily: Panagaeinae Bonelli, 1810
Genera: Craspedophorus
Craspedophorus angulatus
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Craspedophorus mouhotii
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Subfamily: Paussinae Latreille, 1807
Genera: Platyrhopalopsis
Platyrhopalopsis picteti
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Subfamily: Scaritinae Bonelli, 1810
Genera: Scarites
Scarites sp. 001
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Scarites sp. 002
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