''Cosmodela duponti'' is a species of tiger beetle with wide distribution range in Southeast Asia. They are found mainly in forested habitats. Two taxa formerly treated as subspecies under this species, ''

Cosmodela barmanica ''Cosmodela barmanica'' is a species of tiger beetle found in Asia. The species was formerly treated as a subspecies of '' Cosmodela duponti''. The species has a disjunct distribution with one population in the Western Ghats of India and another ...

'' and '' Cosmodela indica'', are now treated as full species. 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. A population from India formerly considered as the subspecies ''C. duponti barmanica'' is now considered to be a full species, ''

''. 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 Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (; 10 August 1780 – 17 March 1845), was a French soldier and entomologist. Dejean described a large number of beetles in a series of catalogues. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose ...

had obtained a specimen noted as being collected from "Cochinchina" (Vietnam) in 1826.

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Beetles described in 1826 Beetles of Asia Cicindelidae {{Cicindelidae-stub