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Cicindelini

tribe of tiger beetles (Cicindelinae)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1950428 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cicindelini is a tribe of tiger beetles in the family Cicindelidae, containing the overwhelming majority (around 80%) of genera and species in the family. There are more than 90 genera and 2,000 described species in Cicindelini.

Editorial summary

“Cicindelini” enters the record as tribe of tiger beetles (Cicindelinae). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cicindelini, tribe and tiger can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cicindelini, tribe and tiger.
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“Cicindelini” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cicindelini, tribe and tiger provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1950428. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cicindelini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.