Cicindela limbata hyperborea LeConte, 1863

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 255-256

Cicindela limbata hyperborea LeConte, 1863

Cicindela hyperborea LeConte, 1863c: 1. Type locality: "Methy Portage [= Portage La Loche, northern Saskatchewan], Hudson’s Bay Territory" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 16]. Note. Methy(e) Portage was the longest portage in the regular fur trade. It lies between Lac La Loche (the top of the Churchill River system) on the southeast and the Clearwater River, which flows into the Athabasca River, on the northwest.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the "Hyperboreal Tiger Beetle", ranges from southern Northwest Territories to east-central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, west-central Manitoba [see Johnson 1991: Fig. 22] and northeastern Manitoba (Woodcock et al. 2011: 118).

Records.

CAN: AB, MB, NT, SK

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the nympha form along a narrow zone in central Alberta (Pearson et al. 2006: 76).