''Calomera'' is a genus of
tiger beetles
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native to the
Palearctic
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, the
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
and
northern Africa
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. It contains the following species:
* ''
Calomera alboguttata''
Klug, 1832
* ''
Calomera angulata''
Fabricius, 1798
* ''
Calomera aulica''
Dejean, 1831
* ''
Calomera brevipilosa''
W. Horn, 1908
* ''
Calomera cardoni''
Fleutiaux, 1890
* ''
Calomera caucasica''
M. F. Adams, 1817
* ''
Calomera chloris''
Hope, 1831
* ''
Calomera concolor''
Dejean, 1822
* ''
Calomera crespignyi''
Bates, 1871
* ''
Calomera decemguttata''
Fabricius, 1801
* ''
Calomera diania''
Tschitscherine, 1903
* ''
Calomera durvillei''
Dejean, 1831
* ''
Calomera fischeri''
M. F. Adams, 1817
* ''
Calomera funerea''
MacLeay, 1825
* ''
Calomera littoralis''
Fabricius, 1787
* ''
Calomera lugens''
Dejean, 1831
* ''
Calomera lunulata''
Fabricius, 1781
* ''
Calomera mamasa''
Cassola & Brzoska, 2008
* ''
Calomera plumigera''
W. Horn, 1892
* ''
Calomera sturmi''
Menetries, 1832
References
External links
''Calomera'' at Fauna Europaea
Cicindelidae
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