Amblycheila

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Cicindelinae
Tribus: Megacephalini
Genus: Amblycheila
Species (8): A. baroni – A. cylindriformis – A. halffteri – A. hoversoni – A. katzi – A. nyx – A. picolominii – A. schwarzi
Name

Amblycheila Say, 1834

References

Template:Say, 1834

Duran, D.P. & Roman, S.J. 2019. A new petrophilous tiger beetle from the Trans-Pecos region of Texas and revised key to the genus Amblycheila (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys, 893: 125–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.893.47059 Open access

Reference page.

Links

Carabidae of the World
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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Amblycheila is a genus of flightless, nocturnal tiger beetles. There are eight species distributed across the southwestern United States and Mexico.[1]
Species

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 katzi Roman & Duran, 2019
Amblycheila nyx Sumlin, 1991
Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1839 – plateau giant tiger beetle
Amblycheila schwarzi W. Horn, 1903 – Mojave giant tiger beetle

References

Jürgen Wiesner (2021) Checklist of the Tiger Beetles of the World 2nd. Edition. ISBN 978-3-96014-777-0