Geographic Range Updates for the Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Northern Ontario, Canada
Author
Jumean, Z.
Author
Oldham, M. J.
Author
Fleming, K. J.
Author
Duran, D. P.
Author
Beresford, D. V.
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
2017
2017-12-01
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707
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.707
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.707
1938-4394
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Cicindela sexguttata
Fabricius
– Six-spotted tiger
beetle (S5)
No specimens of
C. sexguttata
were collected during our northern Ontario surveys.
Cicindela sexguttata
is a widespread and locally common southern Ontario tiger beetle species, barely ranging into northern Ontario along the Lake Huron North Channel and in the Sudbury area.
Wallis
(1961) lists the species from Hymers (presumably the Hymers in Thunder Bay District) but does not map this location, which is well north of the
C. sexguttata
range as mapped by Pearson
et al.
(2015) and closer to the range of
C. denikei
. This record is mapped as questionable on our distribution map (
Fig. 11
).
Graves (1964)
mentions a
C. sexguttata
specimen in the McMaster University collection that is labelled as being from Timmins, Cochrane District; however, this location is also well north of the generally accepted range of
C. sexguttata
and is mapped here as questionable (
Fig. 11
).
Cicindela sexguttata
is often found on loamy to sandy soils in eastern hardwood forests and occasionally in mixed open pine forest (Pearson
et al.
2015).