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
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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).