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Metallic Tiger Beetles
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Metallic Tiger Beetles

Tetracha

Tetracha is a genus of metallic tiger beetles in the family Cicindelidae, formerly treated as a subgenus within the genus Megacephala. Tetracha species are exclusively New World in distribution, while Megacephala are exclusively Old World in distribution. There are ~100 described species in Tetracha.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Tetracha

subgenusTetracha

Neotetracha

subgenusNeotetracha

Paratetracha

subgenusParatetracha

Tetracha acutipennis

speciesTetracha acutipennis

Microtetracha

subgenusMicrotetracha

Tetracha naviauxi

speciesTetracha naviauxi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127968.