Tricondyla

Overview

*Tricondyla* are large, elongate tiger beetles of Oriental forests, their cylindrical bodies perfectly suited to life on the bark and branches of tropical trees. Nocturnal hunters, they move across dead trunks after dark, while their larvae develop hidden within bark burrows. With roughly 15 species following recent synonymisation, they rank among the most distinctive arboreal Collyridini of South and Southeast Asia.

Type species: Cicindela aptera Olivier, 1790 [by subsequent designation (Latreille 1822, fixed by Naviaux 2002)]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist 2. Latreille, P.A. (1822) — original genus 3. Naviaux, R. (multiple papers) — Tricondylina monographs 4. Marohomsalic, J.A., Nueza, O.M., Michalski, M., Wiesner, J. & Jaskula, R. (2024) — Tiger beetles of the genus Tricondyla Latreille, 1822 of the Philippines. Zootaxa 5397(3): 354-389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.3.3 [most recent comprehensive treatment + new synonymies] 5. Horn, W. (1906) — Das Genus Tricondyla Latr. et Dej. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (1): 17-33. 6. 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] 7. 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] 8. 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. Latreille, P.A. — Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des crustacés et des insectes (1802-1805); Genera crustaceorum et insectorum (1806-1809); various subsequent papers. BHL bibliography/15764 + linked series [open access pre-1923] +8 citations · full list in paid edition