Cicindela lengi lengi Horn, 1908

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 237-238

Cicindela lengi lengi Horn, 1908

Cicindela venusta LeConte, 1846b: 179 [primary homonym of Cicindela venusta LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841]. Type locality: "apud flumen Platte" (original citation); cited from "near the Forks of Platte River" by LeConte (1856a: 39). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 42].

Cicindela lengi W. Horn, 1908b: 738. Replacement name for Cicindela venusta LeConte, 1846.

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Blowout Tiger Beetle", ranges from western South Dakota (Spomer et al. 2008a: 57) and southern Wyoming, south to northern New Mexico, extreme northwestern Texas, and southern Oklahoma [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 47]. The records from “Montana” (Horn 1915: 372) and “Iowa” (Boyd 1982: 9) need confirmation.

Records.

USA: CO, KS, MO, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY [IA, MT]

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the jordai form in the southwestern part of its range and with the versuta form in the northern part of its range.