Cephalota elegans
Species of beetle
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Cephalota elegans is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It is found in eastern Europe and western Asia, in the European-Siberian steppe.[2][3][4]
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| Illustration from the monograph by Georgiy Jacobson "Beetles Russia and the Western Europe" (1905). | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Cicindelidae |
| Genus: | Cephalota |
| Species: | C. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Cephalota elegans (Fischer von Waldheim, 1823) | |
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Body length is 12–15 mm. The top is copper or bronze-green with a white pattern on the elytra. The legs and underparts have a metallic sheen. The head has powerful long jagged mandibles. The beetles and larvae are typically diurnal predators. They fly well and run fast.
Subspecies
These four subspecies belong to the species Cephalota elegans:
- Cephalota elegans brunnea (Putchkov, 1993) (Ukraine)
- Cephalota elegans elegans (Fischer von Waldheim, 1823) (Kazakhstan and Russia)
- Cephalota elegans stigmatophora (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828) (Hungary, Ukraine, (former) Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Russia)
- Cephalota elegans turkmenica (Putchkov, 1993) (Turkmenistan)
