Iconic Beetles · Pre-order · Vol. 1 · 2026

Cicindelidae of North America

A curated narrative on Nearctic tiger beetles · by Vladimír Štrunc

North America hosts some of the most photogenic tiger beetles on Earth. From the eastern hardwood forests where Cicindela sexguttata flashes metallic green across leaf litter, to the Gulf Coast night beaches where Tetracha carolina hunts under floodlights, to the gypsum dunes of the southwest where the desert specialist Amblycheila walks instead of flies — the Nearctic Cicindelidae fauna spans almost every imaginable tiger-beetle habitat.

Selected genera treated in depth include Cicindela, Cicindelidia, Ellipsoptera, Habroscelimorpha, Cylindera, Amblycheila, Omus, and Tetracha. Each genus is introduced with morphological diagnostics, distribution at continental scale, and a narrative treatment of three to five of its most iconic species — chosen for photogenic value, behavioural interest, or conservation significance.

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Iconic Beetles · Pre-order · Vol. 2 · 2026

Carabidae of Southern Africa

A curated narrative on Southern African ground beetles · by Vladimír Štrunc

Southern Africa hosts Carabidae of a scale and strangeness rarely seen elsewhere. The giant Anthia march in slow squadrons across Karoo evening sand, their warning coloration honest signalling of a defensive chemistry that can blind a predator. The fossorial Scaritinae carve burrows under stones with oversized mandibles. In the fynbos, metallic Lebiinae ambush at speed on the bark of restios. The book selects genera from across the subcontinent and treats them not as a checklist but as a connected portrait of a regional fauna shaped by aridity, fire, and deep evolutionary time.

Featured genera include Anthia, Termophilum, Graphipterus, Scarites, Brachinus, Lebistina, Calleida, and selected representatives of the Harpalinae. Coverage extends across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, southern Mozambique, and Eswatini, with an emphasis on species accessible to field naturalists and photographers travelling the subcontinent. Carabidae sensu stricto only — Cicindelinae appear in Vol. 3.

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Iconic Beetles · Pre-order · Vol. 3 · 2026

Cicindelidae of Africa

A curated journey through African tiger beetles · by Vladimír Štrunc

Africa is the global centre of Cicindelidae diversity. From the Mediterranean fringe through the Sahel, the Congo basin, the East African rift, the Karoo, and the Cape, tiger beetles express more morphological variation per square kilometre than almost anywhere else on Earth. The giant Manticora — flightless, predominantly nocturnal, armed with mandibles a centimetre long — patrol the southern savannahs as the largest cicindelids in the world. The Lophyra dominate Sahelian sandflats. Mantica, Prothyma, and Habrodera radiate through more localised habitats.

The volume is structured by major African bioregions rather than by tribe, so the reader follows the fauna geographically — from North African Mediterranean coast to West African rainforest, East African savannah and lakes, Central African forest, the Karoo, and the Cape. Selected genera are introduced with morphological diagnostics; iconic species in each genus are profiled with habitat, behaviour, and field-identification notes.

Distinct from the printed monograph Tiger Beetles of Africa. Iconic Beetles, Vol. 3 is a curated narrative ebook companion at popular price — not a replacement for the comprehensive printed taxonomic reference.

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