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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 156
- With media
- 31
- Family
- Carabidae
- Collections
- TTU, CHAS, ASU
- Recorded in
- Peru, United States, Colombia
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Encyclopedic overview
Tiger beetles or the Cicindelidae are a family of beetles known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest known species of tiger beetle, Rivacindela hudsoni, can run at a speed of 9 km/h (5.6 mph; 2.5 m/s), or about 125 body lengths per second. 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. While historically treated as a subfamily of ground beetles (Carabidae) under the name Cicindelinae, several studies since 2020 indicated that they should be treated as a family, the Cicindelidae, a sister group to Carabidae, within the Adephaga.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cicindelinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.