Calochroa
| Calochroa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Cicindelinae |
| Genus: | Calochroa Hope, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Cicindela octonotata Wiedemann, 1819
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Calochroa is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Carabidae. Some authors treat them within the broader genus Cicindela. The genus as used in 2020 shows polyphyly with Calochroa species forming two clades with one clade being a sister to the genus Lophyra and another being a sister to the genus Hipparidium.[1]
Nearly 33 species are known with a distribution in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, to Southeast Asia. Some species in the genus include:
- (Horn, 1893)
- Calochroa bicolor (Fabricius, 1781)
- (Dokhtouroff, 1882)
- Wiesner, 2013
- (Fleutiaux, 1919)
- Hope, 1838,1989
- (Dokhtouroff, 1882)
- (Hope, 1831)
- Wiesner & Phyu, 2019
- Calochroa hamiltoniana (J. Thomson, 1857)
- (Fleurtiaux, 1893)
- Wiesner, 2012
- Wiesner & Phyu, 2019
- (Schmidt-Goebel, 1846)
- Sawada & Wiesner, 1999
- (Horn, 1913)
- (Fleutiaux, 1919)
- Calochroa whithillii Hope, 1838
References[]
- ^ Gough, Harlan M.; Duran, Daniel P.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F.A. (2019). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae): Molecular phylogeny of Cicindelinae". Systematic Entomology. 44 (2): 305–321. doi:10.1111/syen.12324.
Categories:
- Cicindelinae
- Carabidae genera