Sophiodela Nakane, 1955

Fukuda, Yuki, Ogawa, Ryo & Hori, Michio, 2019, The reclassification of Sophiodela and other tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) based on the structure of the everted internal sac of the male genitalia, Zootaxa 4661 (2), pp. 271-308 : 282

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4661.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337362
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scientific name	Sophiodela Nakane, 1955
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Genus Sophiodela Nakane, 1955 , stat. nov.

Type species – Cicindela japonica Thunberg, 1781 View in CoL .

Cicindela (Sophiodela) Nakane, 1955: 26 View in CoL (type species: Cicindela japonica Thunberg, 1781 View in CoL ).

Cicindela (Sericina) Rivalier, 1961: 123 (type species: Cicindela chinensis DeGeer, 1774 View in CoL ) [synonymy by Nakane 1976: 3].

Remarks. This subgenus was originally established under the genus Cicindela by Nakane (1955). In this paper, our results based on the morphological features of male genitalia supported the monophyletic group as an independent genus. Therefore, we raised the taxonomic rank of the subgenus to the genus Sophiodela stat. nov.