Prothyma

Overview

On sun-baked laterite and dry clay pans of Southeast Asia and New Guinea, *Prothyma* (Pseudodistypsidera) hunts with the zeal its name implies. These metallic, fully winged beetles reach 10–16 mm and are active by day across compacted substrates in the Oriental and Australasian tropics.

Type species: Cicindela quadriguttata Westwood, 1834 [by subsequent designation (Hope 1838)]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist 2. Hope, F.W. (1838) — original genus 3. Pearson, D.L. et al. (2020) — Field Guide India 4. Werner, K. (2000) — Tiger Beetles of Africa Vol. 2 5. Naviaux, R. (multiple papers) — Asian Prothyma 6. Hope, F.W. (1838) — The coleopterist's manual, part the second. London, H.G. Bohn. [BHL: biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/9229] 7. 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] 8. 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] 9. 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] +9 citations · full list in paid edition