Ctenostoma

Overview

*Ctenostoma* (Neoprocephalus) are slender, metallic tiger beetles of the Neotropical canopy, creeping along live bark and branches after dark. Reaching around 14 mm, these nocturnal hunters belong to the remarkable comb-mouthed tribe Ctenostomini, whose larvae develop within burrows excavated in bark.

Type species: Ctenostoma jekeli Chaudoir, 1860 [by subsequent designation]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist 2. Klug, J.C.F. (1821) — original genus 3. Moravec, J. (2020) — Cicindelini and Ctenostomini treatment 4. Naviaux, R. (1998) — Ctenostoma (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). Révision du genre et descriptions de nouveaux taxons. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de France. [definitive genus revision] 5. Duran, D.P. & Gough, H.M. (2020) — Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Cicindelidae) and reclassification within Coleoptera. Systematic Entomology 45(4): 723-729. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12440 [validates Cicindelidae as separate family] 6. Gough, H.M., Duran, D.P., Kawahara, A.Y. & Toussaint, E.F.A. (2018) — A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). Systematic Entomology 43(3): 567-586. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12324 [ML phylogeny of 328 taxa, 9 gene regions] 7. Wiesner, J. (2020) — Checklist of the Tiger Beetles of the World, 2nd edition (Verzeichnis der Sandlaufkäfer der Welt, 27. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cicindelidae). Winterwork, Borsdorf, 534 pp. [Authoritative current world checklist] 8. Klug, J.C.F. — Coleoptera Africana / Insektenwelt Madagascars, in Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1821, 1835). BHL various [open access pre-1923] 9. Horn, W. (1908, 1910, 1915) — Coleoptera Adephaga, fam. Carabidae, subfam. Cicindelinae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.) Genera Insectorum, fascicles 82a, 82b, 82c. L. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles. BHL bibliography/45481 [foundational historical monograph of Cicindelidae, treating all genera known at the time] +11 citations · full list in paid editionNaviaux, R. & Schüle, P. (2008) — Deux nouvelles Cicindèles arboricoles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 113(4): 455-457. [see Neocollyris entry above; also *C. crudelum* holotype ♂ Colombia Muzo 1500 m, aedeagus 3.1 mm, close to *C. dormeri* Horn 1898, subgenus Procephalus]

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