Hypaetha

Overview

*Hypaetha* LeConte, 1860 is a medium-sized tiger beetle genus of roughly eleven species inhabiting open sandy shores across the Old World, from the Red Sea and East African coast through South and Southeast Asia. These nocturnal hunters are built for life on bare sand, with a cylindrical, darkly pigmented body measuring 12–18 mm. Larvae develop in vertical burrows excavated into sandy substrate — a hallmark of the genus. *Hypaetha* represents one of the few tiger beetle lineages specialized for coastal and halophytic open-ground environments.

Type species: Cicindela quadrilineata Fabricius, 1798 [by original designation (LaFerté-Sénectère 1851)]

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