Adults are approximately 12–17 mm long.
Fine-art photographic collection
Peridexia fulvipes
A Madagascan tiger beetle with pale feet, orange armour and black patches arranged like a heraldic code.
About this species
Peridexia fulvipes(Dejean, 1831)
Information reviewed15 July 2026
Peridexia fulvipes is one of only a handful of species in a tiger-beetle genus restricted to Madagascar. Adults are strikingly patterned and occur in humid eastern forest landscapes.
Taxonomy
Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Coleoptera · Carabidae · Cicindelinae · Peridexia
Accepted taxon. · checked 2026-07-15
MadagascarBroad range and selected reference localities — not a complete occurrence map.
Madagascar
Humid forest paths, clearings and exposed ground in eastern forest corridors.
Diurnal runner and visual predator.
Small arthropods.
Solitary.
What makes this species remarkable?
Identification keys use an exact combination of black hairless head and pronotum, whitish-yellow hind tarsi, and orange-ochre elytra carrying paired black patches that reach the margin and suture in a precise way.
Peridexia contains only about four described species and is confined to Madagascar, making fulvipes part of a complete tiger-beetle lineage that evolved nowhere else on Earth.
Rapid surveys recorded it within the Mantadia–Zahamena forest corridor, where the number and composition of tiger-beetle species changed sharply between neighbouring sites and exposed habitat fragmentation.