Cratohaerea

Overview

*Cratohaerea* Chaudoir, 1850 is a small Afrotropical tiger beetle genus of three species inhabiting open, wet environments such as muddy lakeshores and savanna clay soils of central and western Africa. These metallic beetles are nocturnal hunters, navigating the damp substrates of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Slender and elongate, *Cratohaerea* represents one of Africa's lesser-known cicindeline lineages.

Type species: Cratohaerea lugens Chaudoir, 1860 [by monotypy]

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