Amblycheila
Amblycheila is a genus of flightless, nocturnal tiger beetles. There are seven species distributed across the southwestern United States and Mexico.[2]
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| Amblycheila schwarzi | |
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| Tribe: | Amblycheilini |
| Genus: | Amblycheila |
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| Manticora cylindriformis Say, 1823 [1] | |
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- Amblycheila baroni Rivers, 1890 – montane giant tiger beetle
- Amblycheila cylindriformis (Say, 1823) – Great Plains giant tiger beetle
- Amblycheila halffteri Mateu, 1974
- Amblycheila hoversoni Gage, 1990 – South Texas giant tiger beetle
- Amblycheila nyx Sumlin, 1991
- Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1839 – plateau giant tiger beetle
- Amblycheila schwarzi W. Horn, 1903 – Mojave giant tiger beetle
References
- Richard Freitag (1999). Catalogue of the tiger beetles of Canada and the United States. Volume 132 of Canadian special publication of fisheries and aquatic sciences. NRC Research Press. ISBN 978-0-660-17640-6.
- Krell, F. and J. O. Brookhart. (2012). The plateau giant tiger beetle, Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1839, in Utah: New state record (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae). Western North American Naturalist 72(1) 110-11.
- "Amblycheila Say, 1829". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 28 Jun 2011.
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