Zecicindela

Overview

*Zecicindela* is a small but distinctive genus of tiger beetles endemic to New Zealand, comprising ten species adapted to forest environments and bare sandy or clay substrates. These medium-sized, metallic beetles are nocturnal hunters, a trait uncommon among cicindelines. Fully winged and robustly built, they represent the sole cicindeline lineage to have colonised and diversified across the New Zealand archipelago.

Type species: Cicindela tuberculata Fabricius, 1775 [by original designation (Pearson & Sloane based on Brouerius)]

1. Wiesner, J. (2020) — checklist authority 2. Csiki, E. (1908) — original genus description 3. Pearson, D.L. & Vogler, A.P. (2001) — Australasian/Pacific phylogenetic context 4. 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] 5. 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] 6. 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] 7. Rivalier, É. (1963) — Démembrement du genre Cicindela L. (fin.). V. Faune australienne (et liste récapitulative des genres et sous-genres proposés pour la faune mondiale). Revue Française d'Entomologie 30(1): 30-48. [Part V — Australian fauna + world summary of genera/subgenera] 8. 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]

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