| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Holometabola |
| order | Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 - beetles |
| suborder | Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806 |
| family | Carabidae Latreille, 1802 - ground and tiger beetles |
| subfamily | Cicindelinae Latreille, 1802 - tiger beetles |
| tribus | Megacephalini Laporte, 1834 |
| genus | Pseudoxycheila Guerin-Meneville, 1839 |
| species | Pseudoxycheila ceratoma Chaudoir, 1865 |