Phyllodroma

Overview

*Phyllodroma* haunts clay banks along Amazonian streams, where its small metallic body blends into the forest floor. This compact Neotropical genus, active after dark, belongs to the tribe Cicindelini and numbers just two species. Its elongate, cylindrical form marks it as a specialist of bare clay-loam and sandy substrates in lowland Amazonian forest.

Type species: Phyllodroma cribrata Lacordaire, 1843 [by monotypy]

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