Cicindela goryi
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| Cicindela goryi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Cicindelidae |
| Genus: | Cicindela |
| Species: | C. goryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Cicindela goryi Chaudoir, 1852 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cicindela pochoni Mandl, 1959 | |
Cicindela goryi, sometimes called the lowland tiger beetle, is a species of tiger beetle from southern India. It was earlier treated as a subspecies of the closely related Cicindela aurofasciata.[1]
Unlike in Cicindela aurofasciata, goryi has the two yellow elytral bands broad and fused to form a cross. They have a wider distribution and are found in the plains of peninsular India unlike aurofasciata which is found in the Western Ghats.[2]
The name goryi derives from the collections of H. L. Gory from which[3] Maximilien Chaudoir described the species.[4]
