Cicindela depressula
Species of beetle
Cicindela depressula | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cicindelidae |
Genus: | Cicindela |
Species: | C. depressula |
Binomial name | |
Cicindela depressula Casey, 1897 |
Cicindela depressula, the dispirited tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Cicindelidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2][3][4]
Subspecies
Two subspecies have been described:
- Cicindela depressula depressula Casey, 1897, the Dispirited Tiger Beetle, is found in mountain ranges from southern Alaska south to the Sierra Nevada in east-central California and western Nevada; it is also found in the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and western Montana.
- Cicindela depressula eureka Fall, 1901, the Eureka Tiger Beetle, is found in a narrow area in proximity of the Pacific Coast from northern Washington State to northern California.
References
- ^ "Cicindela depressula Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ a b "Cicindela depressula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.
- ^ Duran, Daniel P.; Gough, Harlan M. (2020). "Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), review and reclassification of tribal relationships". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4). doi:10.1111/syen.12440.
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Freitag, Richard (1999). Catalogue of the tiger beetles of Canada and the United States, vii + 195.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys 147: 601–621.
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