Cephalota elegans

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.

Cephalota elegans
Illustration from the monograph by Georgiy Jacobson “Beetles Russia and the Western Europe” (1905).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Carabidae
Subfamily:
Cicindelinae
Tribe:
Cicindelini
Genus:
Cephalota
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cephalota elegans
Subspecies

Cephalota elegans brunnea (Putchkov, 1993) - Ukraine[1]
Cephalota elegans elegans (Fischer von Waldheim, 1824)
Cephalota elegans stigmatophora (Fischer von Waldheim, 1825)[2] - S. Ukraine

Synonyms

Cicindela elegans Fourcroy & Geoffroy, 1785[3]


References
  1. Cephalota elegans brunnea on www.carabidae.ru Archived October 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Cephalota elegans on www.biolib.cz
  3. 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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