taxonID	type	description	language	source
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	description	(Fig. 2, 3)	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name is derived from the film, Stars Wars: A New Hope. In the film, there is a hot, dry place known as the “ Jundland Wastes ”, a particularly desolate area on the protagonist’s home planet of Tatooine. This desert environment is similar in appearance to the some of the more extreme habitats that Jundlandia lemniscata inhabits within the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts.	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Cicindela lemniscata (LeConte, 1854); by present designation	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	description	Description. Small size, 7 – 11 mm. Body shape slender, cylindrical. Head with distinct rugosity. Frons glabrous except for two supraorbital setae near each eye. Genae polished metallic, glabrous. Clypeus glabrous. Labrum long, approximately as long as wide. Antennal scape with a single long erect seta. Pronotum with shallow transverse rugosity, surface polished. Pronotal setae thick white decumbent, restricted to lateral third. Lateral portions of venter with dense white decumbent setae present. Legs variable in color: femora pale testaceous, occasionally with slight metallic surfaces on upper surface or femora strongly pigmented red or green. Protrochanter with a single subapical seta. Mesotrochanter without a subapical seta. Metatrochanter without a subapical seta. Each elytron bears a single cream-colored vitta that possesses a small inward projection on basal third, bending into an apical lunule at the tip; a small number of individuals may have vitta broken into three separate lines. Elytral apices separately rounded in female, very slightly so in male. Small sutural spine present. Microserrations present. This new genus is supported by recent phylogenetic studies (Duran & Gough 2019) (Fig 1), and it is most closely related to a New World clade comprised of the genera Ellipsoptera, Dromochorus and Parvindela.	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The monotypic genus has a large distribution in dry grassland and desert biomes within the southwestern United states (Pearson et al. 2015) and Mexico (Cazier 1954), mostly in the Nearctic biogeographic realm, but reaching the northern reaches of the Neotropical realm in western Mexico. Specifically, the species ranges from southern California and southwestern Utah to the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma, south to the southern tip of Baja California and the western Mexico states of Sinaloa and Colima (J. Shetterly, pers. comm. 2022).	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF06080FE82FE822A25.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology. This genus may be found in a variety of habitats within the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Desert regions, from vegetated to sparely vegetated or unvegetated habitats, near water or in dry areas, from the bottom of washes to uplands.	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
430D87FDFFFBFFF76080FA6EFD7D2D69.taxon	discussion	Discussion The systematic placement of J. lemniscata has always been unclear, and the resulting taxonomy has not been stable. In addition to its morphological uniqueness, the most recent molecular phylogeny (Duran & Gough 2019) demonstrated that the species was found in a clade that did not correspond to any named genus. Moreover, in our examination of morphological characters, it is now evident that J. lemniscata possesses a unique combination of characters that are different from any of the other related genera (e. g. Parvindela, Brasiella). Consequently, we erected a new monotypic genus for the species. The species described as Cicindela cardini, was never well-studied, as it was only known from two worn specimens collected in Cuba in 1910. It bears unusual maculations that are remarkably similar to J. lemniscata. Rivalier did not examine the species in his major 1954 revision of the faune Américaine. As such, the internal structures of the aedeagus are unknown, and its taxonomic status was not resolved. It remained in Cicindela s. str. until Boyd’s (1982) checklist of the tiger beetles of North America (including Central America and the West Indies) when he placed cardini in Cicindelidia, which he considered a subgenus of Cicindela. No explanation was given for this placement, and this decision is hard to reconcile with any morphological characters. Despite the morphological synapomorphies shared between cardini and J. lemniscata (see Results), we feel that it would be premature to include the former in Jundlandia without the additional support of molecular phylogenetic data. Future efforts to locate and collect fresh material may help to resolve the relationships between these taxa. Our above description for Jundlandia, new genus, has been kept broad enough that it could accommodate cardini, if future research demonstrated that taxon to be congeneric with J. lemniscata. Although the two species share several characters, they also differ considerably in others. The texture of the elytral surface is not similar between the two taxa, with J. lemniscata having deeply and densely punctate elytra, forming a glittering shiny overall surface, and cardini possessing an impunctate and dull, almost velvety texture. If these taxa are congeneric, it would indicate a great degree of variability in this character.	en	Duran, Daniel P., Gough, Harlan M. (2022): A new genus of tiger beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) from the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. Zootaxa 5175 (2): 293-299, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.7
