Catalogue and Bibliography of the Hong Kong Carabidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Adephaga), with notes on the historic boundaries of Hong Kong as related to zoological collections Author Aston, Paul text Zootaxa 2016 4121 3 201 257 journal article 38912 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.1 6cb37831-da16-4763-a32c-aef636512990 1175-5326 265007 172021D4-55C8-483F-A6B2-F823C3022F90 Subgenus Lophyra Lophyra ( Lophyra ) cancellata candei ( Chevrolat, 1845 ) Chevrolat described this subspecies as Cicindela candei from the environs of Macao . Chaudoir (1865) , Dover & Ribeiro (1923) , Horn (1930) , Wiesner (1992) , Hua (2002) , Puchkov & Matalin (2003) and Shook & Wiesner (2006) list this subspecies for Hong Kong . Material : 1 ex. Hong Kong , Lantau, Mui Wo, 1.v.07 (JWPC); 1 ex. Hong Kong , Lantau, Mui Wo, 6.v.06 (GSPC); Sight record Hong Kong , Lantau, Mui Wo, 15.v.05 , on sandy beach close to where streams enter the sea. Not present a week later; 2 exx. Hong Kong , Lantau, Mui Wo, 24.v.07 (JWPC); 2 exx. Hong Kong , Lantau, Mui Wo, 5.vi.07 (GSPC). Biology : Imago found May to June. This species can be abundant on rivers with sandy banks and adjacent beaches at river mouths. In spring and summer 2014 and 2015 , the populations seem to have died out at Mui Wo and Shap Long, Lantau (a site where this species used to be quite common).