Cicindis

Cicindis horni, Horn’s fairy shrimp hunting beetle, is a species of beetles in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Cicindis.^[1] This species is endemic to Argentina, where it inhabits the margins of large salt flats.

Cicindis
Cicindis horni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Tribe:	Cicindini
Genus:	Cicindis Bruch, 1908
Species:	C. horni
Binomial name
Cicindis horni Bruch, 1908

The Cicindis classification is designated by autapotypic features including but not limited to a lack of supraorbital setiferous punctures (with these punctures being instead on the basal setiferous), dorsal surface of mandible shown with obliquely transverse grooves, and one or more tarsomeres on each leg with fringes of accessory setae.^[2]

Adults surface-swim and dive to find their prey, a fairy shrimp species.^[3]