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Neocicindela
Sign in to saveNeocicindela is a genus of tiger beetles endemic to New Zealand. Several former species of Neocicindela have been transferred to a new genus Zecicindela. It can be separated from Zecicindela by the shape of the labrum and the absence of hairs on the clypeus, frons, genae and pronotum.
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Neocicindela is a genus of tiger beetles endemic to New Zealand. Several former species of Neocicindela have been transferred to a new genus Zecicindela. It can be separated from Zecicindela by the shape of the labrum and the absence of hairs on the clypeus, frons, genae and pronotum.
==Species== As of October 2024, it contains eight species, all endemic to New Zealand. Neocicindela aureata Johns, 2018 Neocicindela dunedensis (Laporte, 1867) Neocicindela garnerae Larochelle & Larivière, 2013 Neocicindela latecincta (White, 1846) Neocicindela parryi (White, 1846) Neocicindela spilleri Brouerius van Nidek, 1965 Neocicindela tuberculata (Fabricius, 1775) Neocicindela waiouraensis (Broun, 1914)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neocicindela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.