Langea

Overview

*Langea* is a rare Neotropical tiger beetle genus of three species confined to South America, where adults inhabit the bark and branches of forest trees. These small, metallic beetles are nocturnal, threading through the vertical world of trunks and limbs that most cicindelids never explore. With larvae presumed to burrow within bark, *Langea* represents one of the most specialized arboreal lifestyles known in the family.

Type species: Langea madagascariensis Jeannel, 1946 [by monotypy]

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