Cosmodela duponti is a species of tiger beetle with wide distribution range in South and Southeast Asia. They are found mainly in forested habitats.
The species is distinct in its large size with iridescent blue and purple body with four white spots. There are hairs below the head (genal region) and the lateral pronotal margins are smooth and unhaired. There is considerable geographic variation and the nominate subspecies is from Southeast Asia. Specimens from India may be assigned to C. duponti barmanica but there may be more than one subspecies in India. They are found mainly along forests and near water.[1] There are several subspecies that are recognized. The species was named after Henry Dupont, a trader in specimens from whom the French entomologist Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean had obtained a specimen noted as being collected from "Cochinchina" (Vietnam) in 1826.[2]
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Nominate subspecies from North Vietnam
From Kerala
Cosmodela duponti is a species of tiger beetle with wide distribution range in South and Southeast Asia. They are found mainly in forested habitats.
The species is distinct in its large size with iridescent blue and purple body with four white spots. There are hairs below the head (genal region) and the lateral pronotal margins are smooth and unhaired. There is considerable geographic variation and the nominate subspecies is from Southeast Asia. Specimens from India may be assigned to C. duponti barmanica but there may be more than one subspecies in India. They are found mainly along forests and near water. There are several subspecies that are recognized. The species was named after Henry Dupont, a trader in specimens from whom the French entomologist Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean had obtained a specimen noted as being collected from "Cochinchina" (Vietnam) in 1826.
Nominate subspecies from North Vietnam
From Kerala
Cicindela duponti Dejean, 1826 è un coleottero carabide della sottofamiglia Cicindelinae.[1]
L'areale di questa specie comprende Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cina meridionale (Yunnan), India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland), Laos, Malaysia, Thailandia e Vietnam.[1]
Sonon note due sottospecie: [1]
Cicindela duponti Dejean, 1826 è un coleottero carabide della sottofamiglia Cicindelinae.
Cicindela duponti is een keversoort uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae).[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1826 door Dejean.
Bronnen, noten en/of referenties
Cicindela (Cosmodela) duponti – gatunek chrząszcza z rodziny biegaczowatych, podrodziny trzyszczowatych i plemienia Cicindelini.
Biegaczowaty ten osiąga od 15 do 18 mm długości ciała. Ubarwienie zróżnicowane od zielonego do niebieskiego i fioletowego z wyraźnie metalicznie czerwonym zabarwieniem szwów. Pokrywy owalne w obrysie i szerokie w ramionach. Na wzór pokryw składają się małe żółte lub białawe kropki poniżej kątów barkowych, poprzeczn pas środkowy oraz krótszy pasek wierzchołkowy[1].
Wyróżniono dwa podgatunki[2][1]:
Cicindela (Cosmodela) duponti – gatunek chrząszcza z rodziny biegaczowatych, podrodziny trzyszczowatych i plemienia Cicindelini.
