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 unicolor Dejean, 1825
Cicindela unicolor
Dejean, 1825: 52. Type locality:
"Amerique
septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina (see Leng 1902: 125). Syntype(s) in MHNP.
Distribution.
This subspecies, the "Unicolored Tiger Beetle", is known from eastern Tennessee and North Carolina (Pearson et al. 2006: 103) south to central Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 16; Choate 2003: Map 74), southern Alabama (
Loeding
1945: 9), and southern Mississippi (Graves and Pearson 1973: 174); also recorded from
"Virginia"
(Erwin and Pearson 2008: 184). The records from Texas (Tucker 1906: 85),
"Louisiana,"
"Colorado"
(Leng 1902: 125), New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 155), and Oklahoma (Drew and Van Cleave 1962: 115) could be based on strays, on intergrades, or be in error.
Records.
USA
: AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN [VA]
Note.
According to Pearson et al. (2006: 103), this form intergrades with the
rugifrons
form in North Carolina and with the
lecontei
form in northern Missouri and Tennessee.