Cicindela

This appears to be a six-spotted tiger beetle (Cicindela sexguttata).

Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009

This appears to be a six-spotted tiger beetle Cicindela sexguttata.

Six-spotted tiger beetle AYDIN 2009

But my finest discovery here was the Cicindela gloriosa, which I found on mossy stones just rising above the water.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Of these the most interesting are: -- a large predacious nocturnal bug, shining black, with red wings; a nocturnal Cicindela, a beautiful insect, with dark green striated wing-cases and pale red legs; also several diminutive wingless wasps.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

Among the Tiger beetles, frequenting sandy places, the large Cicindela generosa and the Cicindela hirticollis are most common.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Now is the time for the collector to turn up stones and sticks by the river's side and in grassy damp pastures, for Ground beetles (Carabidæ), and to frequent sunny paths for the gay Cicindela and the Bombylius fly, or fish in brooks and pools for water beetles and various larvæ of

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

On dead trunks overhanging the water and on the banks and foliage, I obtained three very pretty species of Cicindela, quite distinct in size, form, and colour, but having an almost identical pattern of pale spots.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

About the roads in the forest, I found the large and handsome Cicindela heros, which I had before obtained sparingly at Macassar; but it was in the mountain torrent of the ravine itself that I got my finest things.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Our common Cicindela campestris frequents grassy banks, and is of a beautiful green colour, while C. maritima, which is found only on sandy sea-shores, is of a pale bronzy yellow, so as to be almost invisible.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

But my finest discovery here was the Cicindela gloriosa, which

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868