Cicindela goryi is a species of tiger beetle from southern India. It was earlier treated as a subspecies of the closely related Cicindela aurofasciata.[1]

Cicindela goryi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cicindelidae
Genus: Cicindela
Species:
C. goryi
Binomial name
Cicindela goryi
Chaudoir, 1852
Synonyms

Cicindela pochoni Mandl, 1959

Unlike in Cicindela aurofasciata, goryi has the two yellow elytral bands broad and fused to form a cross. They have a wider distribution and are found in the plains of peninsular India unlike aurofasciata which is found in the Western Ghats.[2]

The name goryi derives from the collections of H. L. Gory from which[3] Maximilien Chaudoir described the species.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Mawdsley, Jonathan R. (2010). "Cladistic analysis of Cicindela Linnaeus 1758, subgenus Pancallia Rivalier 1961, a lineage of tiger beetles from southern India (Coleoptera Cicindelidae)". Tropical Zoology. 23 (2): 195–204.
  2. ^ Pearson, David L.; Wiesner, Jürgen; Acciavatti, Robert E. Acciavatti; Uniyal, V. P.; Anichtchenko, Alexander (2020). A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of India: Identification and Biology of the Cicindelidae. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh. p. 108. ISBN 9788121109338.
  3. ^ Basilewsky, P. (1982). "Baron Maximilien de Chaudoir (1816-1881)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 36 (3): 462–474. ISSN 0010-065X.
  4. ^ de Chaudoir, Baron M. (1852). "Mémoire sur la famille des carabiques". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 25: 3–4.