Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Cicindela amargosae amargosae Dahl, 1939 Cicindela willistoni amargosae Dahl, 1939: 221. Type locality: "four miles north of Furnace Creek, Death Valley, Inyo County, California" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in CAS [# 8152]. Distribution. This subspecies, also known as the "Great Basin Tiger Beetle", is found in the Death Valley area in eastern California (Leffler 1987: 8). Records. USA : CA Note. 1. Rumpp (1956: 141) reported the presence of intergrade populations between this subspecies and the nyensis form at places located between the type localities of amargosae and nyensis . 2. Cicindela amargosae has been regarded as a subspecies of Cicindela senilis LeConte by some authors (e.g., Willis 1968) or Cicindela willistoni LeConte (e.g., Kippenhan 1996b: 56) but treated as a closely related but distinct species by Leffler (1987: 8) and Pearson et al. (2006: 117).