Cicindela

Overview

Among Africa's most specialized tiger beetles, *Cicindela* (Austrocicindela) haunts the bark and wood of forest trees rather than open ground — a rare arboreal lifestyle in the family. Nocturnal hunters, their larvae develop in burrows within bark. This small subgenus of four species represents a striking ecological departure from typical cicindelid habits.

Type species: Cicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758 [by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810]

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