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Lophyra lineifrons

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Species of beetle

Lophyra lineifrons
From Karnataka
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Cicindelidae
Genus: Lophyra
Species: L. lineifrons
Binomial name
Lophyra lineifrons
(Chaudoir, 1865)

Lophyra lineifrons is a species of tiger beetle found in Asia mainly along the northern Gangetic plains of India and into Thailand, Yunnan, Laos and Vietnam. They can be confused with Lophyra striolata which also overlaps with the species in northern India. Other species can be told apart from characters of the labrum.

References

  1. Xiao-Qiang, Wu; Shook, Gary (2007). "Range Extensions, New Records, an Artificial Key and a List of Tiger Beetles of Yunnan Province, China (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)". Journal of the Entomological Research Society. 9 (2): 31–40.
  2. Matalin, A.V.; Cherkasov, S.I. (2004). "A new subgenus and new species of Lophyra from Vietnam(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae)". Russian Entomol. J. 13 (1–2): 3–12.
Taxon identifiers
Lophyra lineifrons
Cicindela lineifrons
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