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Issue: Vol. 5661 No. 3: 16 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5661.3.1
Page range: 301-329
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Tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of Azerbaijan

Moscow State Pedagogical University; Education-Scientific Centre Ecology & Biodiversity; Kibalchicha str. 6; build. 5; Moscow 129164; Russia.; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University; Institute of Biology and Human Pathology; Department of Biology; Ostrovitianova str. 1; 117997 Moscow; Russia.
Institute of Zoology; Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Baku; AZ1004; pr. 1128; kv. 504; Azerbaijan.; Western Caspian University; 31 Istiglaliyyat St.; Baku; Azerbaijan.
Coleoptera Cicindelidae Caucasus fauna species diversity new records distribution identification key

Abstract

A first review of the tiger beetle fauna of Azerbaijan is presented and discussed. Currently 23 species, two of them with two subspecies, are reliably known from the country. Cicindela herbacea turkestanicoides W. Horn, 1938 and Cicindela georgiensis georgiensis Deuve, 2011 are recorded in Azerbaijan for the first time. Distribution ranges and an identification key are also included.

 

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How to Cite

Matalin, A.V. & Snegovaya, N.Y. (2025) Tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa, 5661 (3), 301–329. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.3.1