Oxygoniola

Overview

On leaf-littered trails in Neotropical forest, *Oxygoniola* is a small, metallic tiger beetle of Amazonian shadows. Representing a compact, oval-bodied lineage allied to *Oxygonia*, it inhabits forest floors across Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Nocturnal and rarely encountered, this diminutive genus rewards patient observers in the wet-season night.

Type species: Oxygoniola tristis W. Horn, 1892 [by monotypy]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist 2. Horn, W. (1903) — original genus description 3. Moravec, J. (2020) — Cicindelini Vol. 2 4. Pearson, D.L. & Vogler, A.P. (2001) — Tiger Beetles: The Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of the Cicindelids. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 333 pp. [ISBN 0-8014-3882-9] 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. Horn, W. (1908-1915) — Coleoptera Adephaga, fam. Carabidae, subfam. Cicindelinae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.) Genera Insectorum, fascicles 82a, 82b, 82c (1908, 1910, 1915). L. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles. BHL bibliography/45481 [open access — fundamental historical monograph for the family] 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] +2 citations · full list in paid edition[CassolaBrzoska2008] Cassola, F. & Brzoska, D. (2008) — Collecting notes and new data on the tiger beetle fauna of Sulawesi, Indonesia, with descriptions of fourteen new taxa. Cicindela 40(1-4): 1–110. [68 spp. collected, 13 n.sp. + 1 n.ssp.; habitat data, syntopy records, >5,000 specimens; Sulawesi endemic fauna 80.1%, 116 total spp.]

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