''Cicindis horni'', Horn’s fairy shrimp hunting beetle, is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
s in the family
Carabidae
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...
, the only species in the genus ''Cicindis''.
[ This species is endemic to Argentina, where it inhabits the margins of large salt flats.
The ''Cicindis'' classification is designated by autapotypic features including but not limited to a lack of supraorbital setiferous punctures (with these punctures being instead on the basal setiferous), dorsal surface of mandible shown with obliquely transverse grooves, and one or more tarsomeres on each leg with fringes of accessory setae.
Adults surface-swim and dive to find their prey, a fairy shrimp species.A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera)]
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References
Nebriinae
Monotypic Carabidae genera
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