Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
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Bousquet, Yves
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
bousquety1@yahoo.com
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Cicindela scutellaris lecontei Haldeman, 1853
Cicindela lecontei
Haldeman, 1853: 361. Type locality:
"Wisconsin"
(original citation). One possible syntype, a ♀ labeled "[yellow disc] / C. Lecontei Hald. [handwritten]," in MCZ (collection LeConte).
Cicindela criddlei
Casey, 1913: 19. Type locality: "Aweme, Manitoba" (original citation). Four syntypes [4 originally cited] in USNM [# 45916]. Synonymy established by Wallis (1961: 35).
Distribution.
This subspecies, the
"LeConte's
Tiger Beetle", ranges from southern Quebec to southern Manitoba (Wallis 1961: 35-36), south to Kansas, northern Mississippi, West Virginia, and Connecticut [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 43). The records
from
"Saskatchewan"
and
"Alberta"
(Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 60) refer to the nominotypical subspecies.
Records.
CAN
: MB, ON, QC
USA
: CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, ND, NE, NH, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, VT, WI, WV
Note.
This subspecies intergrades with the nominate form over a broad area in the Great Plains and with the
unicolor
form in northern Missouri and Tennessee (Pearson et al. 2006: 102, 103).