# Cicindela duponti in Kadavoor

- By: Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India
- Date: 12 July 2015
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cicindela_duponti_in_Kadavoor.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Cicindela_duponti_in_Kadavoor.jpg/1920px-Cicindela_duponti_in_Kadavoor.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Cosmodela barmanica, belong to Cicindelidae, commonly known as Common tiger beetles, are generally brightly colored and metallic beetles, often with some sort of patterning of ivory or cream-colored markings. They are most abundant and diverse in habitats with sandy soil (though some prefer clay), and very often near bodies of water, even if seasonally transient; along river, sea and lake shores, on sand dunes, around playa lakebeds and on clay banks or woodland paths.