Apteroessa
| Apteroessa grossa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Apteroessa Hope, 1838 |
| Species: | A. grossa |
| Binomial name | |
| Apteroessa grossa (Fabricius, 1781) | |
Apteroessa grossa is a species of tiger beetle in the family Carabidae, the sole species in the genus Apteroessa and described on the basis of a specimen from the Coromandel region (Tranquebar) in southern India. It is somewhat large (about one and a half inches long) and robust, and is among the few tiger beetles with highly reduced wings (or apterous) making them flightless.[1][2][3] There are three known specimens in museums, with varying degrees of damage. The species has not been seen in the wild since the 1900s and is thought to be extremely local in distribution.[4]
References
- ↑ Sophien Kamoun and Saskia A. Hogenhout (1996). "Flightlessness and Rapid Terrestrial Locomotion in Tiger Beetles of the Cicindela L. Subgenus Rivacindela van Nidek from Saline Habitats of Australia (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 50 (3): 221–230.
- ↑ Hope, F.W. (1838). The Coleopterist's Manual. Part the second containing the predaceous land and water beetles of Linneus and Fabricius. London: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 159–160.
- ↑ "Apteroessa Hope, 1838". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 28 Jun 2011.
- ↑ Fowler, W.W. (1912). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 440–441.
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