Cicindela depressula

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Cicindela depressula
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Carabidae
Subfamily:
Cicindelinae
Tribe:
Cicindelini
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 Carabidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2][3]

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[]

  1. ^ "Cicindela depressula Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  2. ^ a b "Cicindela depressula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  3. ^ Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.
  • Freitag, Richard (1999). Catalogue of the tiger beetles of Canada and the United States, vii + 195.
  • Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys 147: 601–621.

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.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.



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