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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4
707
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Cicindela tranquebarica
Herbst
– Oblique-lined
tiger beetle (S5)
Cicindela tranquebarica
has a broad distribution across North America. Although
Wallis
(1961) did not map any Ontario records of
C
.
tranquebarica
from the James Bay drainage of northern Ontario, he listed the species from both Attawapiskat and Smoky Falls. Our records indicate that
C. tranquebarica
is quite widespread in the southern James Bay drainage (
Fig.12
) and, unlike many other
Cicindela
species
, occurs in a wider variety of habitats (mudflats, salt marsh, sand, and clay) (
Catling 2006
; Pearson
et al.
2015).
Records from most of
Ontario
, including eastern areas of northern
Ontario
, belong to
C. tranquebarica tranquebarica
(Pearson
et al.
2015)
. Pearson
et al.
(2015) suggest that west of the Thunder Bay- Lake Nipigon area, northern
Ontario
records of this species are intergrades between
C. tranquebarica tranquebarica
and
C. tranquebarica kirbyi
LeConte. Previously
,
C. tranquebarica
had been reported in
Ontario
south of a line from southern James Bay to the Ontario-Manitoba border at roughly
51° N
(Pearson
et al.
2015). Fleming and Beresford (2016) reported
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Fig. 10.
Northern Ontario distribution map showing previous collection records for
Cicindela scutellaris
.
the occurrence of
C. tranquebarica tranquebarica
on
Akimiski Island
,
Nunavut
, approximately
25 km
east of
Attawapiskat in James Bay
(at roughly
53° N
). Our collections extend the range of the species west of the
James Bay
coast,
between Moosonee and Attawapiskat
, by approximately
250 km
.