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Listed Papua species: 64 [30 endemic species and 3 subspecies for Papua Indonesia]

Tribus Collyridini

Tricondyla Latreille, 1822

aptera (Olivier, 1790)
connata Lamarck, 1853
violacea Chaudoir, 1860

Tribus Cicindelini

Megacephala Latreille, 1802
Sg. Australicapitona Sumlin, 1992

?bostockii (Laporte de Castelnau, 1867)
excisilatera (Sloane, 1897)
viridisericea Sumlin 1992

Sg. Pseudotetracha Fleutiaux, 1864

?humeralis MacLeay, 1863

Distipsidera Westwood, 1837

hackeri Sloane, 1906
thierfelderi W. Horn, 1925

Therates Latreille, 1817

basalis Dejean, 1826
ssp. basalis Dejean, 1826
ssp. misoriensis Raffray, 1878 [endemic]

caligatus Bates, 1872 [endemic]

cheesmanae Wiesner, 1988 [endemic]

cyaneus Chaudoir, 1861 [endemic]

dichromus J. Thomson, 1859
chaudoirii Schaum, 1860

festivus Boisduval, 1835

labiatus (Fabricius, 1801)
cyanipennis Bonelli, 1818
purpureus Chaudoir, 1865
punctulatus Chaudoir, 1865

pseudorothschildi Mandl & Pearson, 1978 [endemic]

rothschildi W. Horn, 1896
ssp. pseudofestivus Wiesner, 1988 [endemic]

Cicindela Linnaeus, 1758
Sg. Calomera Motschulsky, 1862

durvillei (Dejean, 1831)

Cylindera Westwood, 1831
Sg. Ifasina Jeannel, 1946

froggatti (MacLeay, 1887)
ssp. froggatti (MacLeay, 1887)
subfasciata (W. Horn, 1892)
longimarginalis (Mandl, 1970)

Myriochila Motschulsky, 1858
Sg. Myriochila Motschulsky, 1858

semicincta (Brullé, 1834)
interrupta (Fabricius, 1801)
menetriesi (Gistel, 1837)
circumcincta (Castelnau, 1867)
hemicycla (Montrouzier, 1855)

Enantiola Rivalier, 1961

denticollis (W. Horn, 1895)

Polyrhanis Rivalier, 1963

ancorifera (W. Horn, 1897)

arfakenis Matalin & Wiesner, 2008 [endemic]

aruana (Dokhtouroff, 1887)

barbata (W. Horn, 1895)

boisduvali (W. Horn, 1896)

cheesmanae (Nidek, 1954) [endemic]

dabraensis Matalin & Cassola, 2012 [endemic]

delicata (Bates, 1874) [endemic]
ssp. delicata (Bates, 1874)
ssp. angustiformis (W. Horn, 1914) [endemic]

excisilabris (W. Horn, 1905) [endemic]

fakfakiensis Cassola & Werner, 1996 [endemic]

funerata (Boisduval, 1835) [endemic]
lucasi (Dokthouroff, 1882)

guineensis (W. Horn, 1892)
ssp. guineensis (W. Horn, 1892)

holgeri Schüle, 1998 [endemic]

innocens (W. Horn, 1893) [endemic]

kampeni (W. Horn, 1913)

klynstrai (Nidek, 1954) [endemic]

korupuncola Wiesner, 1999 [endemic]

neopupilligera Cassola & Werner, 2001 [endemic]

olthofi (Nidek, 1959)
aethofi sensu Rivalier, 1962 (misspelling)

placida (Schaum, 1863) [endemic]

pseudopupillata (W. Horn, 1938)

pupillata (Schaum, 1863) [endemic]

pupilligera (Chaudoir, 1865) [endemic]

riedeli Cassola & Werner, 1996 [endemic]

toxopeusi (Nidek, 1959) [endemic]
toxopei Rivalier, 1963

variolosa (Blanchard, 1853) [endemic]

waigeoensis Cassola & Werner, 2001 [endemic]

Orthocindela Rivalier, 1972

angustecincta Rivalier, 1972
murmurensis Nidek, 1973

heteridia (Nidek, 1960) [endemic]

Guineica Rivalier, 1963

inaequidens (Nidek, 1959)

tetrachoides (Gestro, 1876)
kraatzi Dokthouroff, 1883

Leptognatha Rivalier, 1963
Sg. Leptognatha Rivalier, 1963

alticola (Nidek, 1959)

denhoedi (Nidek, 1960)

fuscilabris Rivalier, 1972 [endemic]

latreillei (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
latreilleana (Boisduval, 1835)

occidentalis Cassola, 1986 [endemic]

robusta Rivalier, 1972

sedlacekorum Cassola, 1986

velutina (Nidek, 1959)

viridimicans (Nidek, 1959)

viridithoracica (Nidek, 1959)

Sg. Thylacina Rivalier, 1963

fraudulenta Cassola, 1986 [endemic]

gracilipes Rivalier, 1972 [endemic]

longipenis Cassola & Matalin, 2010 [endemic]

nigriventris (Nidek, 1959) [endemic]

rivalieri (Nidek, 1960) [endemic]

spinilabris Rivalier, 1972

 

[list updated on 3rd February 2012]

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Literature

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Cassola, F. 1987. Studi sui Cicindelidi. LI. I Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) della Nuova Guinea. – Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 86: 281 – 454.
Cassola, F., 1989. Studies on Cicindelids. LVII. Additions to the fauna of New Guinea, and re-depository of some type specimens (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 96: 803-810.
Cassola, F. 1990. Studies on Cicindelids. LV. Biogeography of the Cicindelidae (Coleoptera) of the Australo-Papuan Region. In: “Biogeographical Aspects of Insularity”, Accademia Nazionale die Lincei, Atti die Convegni Lincei, 85: 559-574.
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Wiesner, J., 2000. Polyrhanis holynskii sp. nov., a new tiger beetle from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 110, 273-274.