Cephalota elegans
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| Illustration from the monograph by Georgiy Jacobson “Beetles Russia and the Western Europe” (1905). | |
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| Subfamily: | Cicindelinae
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| Species: | C. elegans
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| Cephalota elegans Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
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Cephalota elegans brunnea (Putchkov, 1993) - Ukraine[1]
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Cephalota elegans is a ground beetle species in the genus Cephalota. European-Siberian steppe species. Body length 12-15 mm. Top copper or bronze-green with a white pattern on elytra. Legs and underparts with a metallic sheen. Head with powerful long jagged mandibles. Beetles and larvae are typical diurnal predators. Beetles fly well and run fast. Larvae live in vertical mink.
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Wikispecies has information related to Cephalota elegans. |
- ^ Cephalota elegans brunnea on www.carabidae.ru Archived October 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cephalota elegans on www.biolib.cz
- ^ Fourcroy, A. F. de 1785. Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quæ in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundam methodam Geoffrœanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivialia & fere trecentæ novæ species. Pars prima. - pp. I-VII [= 1-7], [1], 1-231. Parisiis. (Hôtel Serpente).
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