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.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2017
2017-12-01
71
4
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 denikei
Brown
– Laurentian tiger
beetle (S3S4)
Cicindela denikei
, originally described from Ingolf in northern Ontario by
Brown (1934)
, is a globally rare (G3G4) tiger beetle, whose world distribution is largely restricted to a small area of northwestern Ontario, southeastern Manitoba, and northern Minnesota (Kaulbars and Freitag 1993a). Although it has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of
C. sexguttata
(
e.g
.,
Wallis
1961), it is now generally treated as a full species (
e.g
.,
Freitag 1999
;
Bousquet
et al.
2013
; Pearson
et al.
2015).
Cicindela denikei
is restricted to boreal forest, typically on sandy soils among granite outcrops of the Canadian Shield (Pearson
et al.
2015).
A highly disjunct population occurs on alvars on Manitoulin Island (
Bouchard
et al.
2005
).
Brust (2007)
added additional records from northwestern
Ontario
and Kaulbars and Freitag (1993b) and
Brust (2007)
provided information on the behavior of this species. Our records from the Rainy Lake area of Rainy River District are southeast of the range mapped by Wallis (1961) but within the shaded distribution mapped by Pearson
et al.
(2015) (
Fig. 2
).