Cicindela plutonica Casey, 1897
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Cicindela plutonica Casey, 1897
Cicindela [purpurea] plutonica Casey, 1897: 296. Type locality: "Placer Co[unty], California" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45948].
Cicindela plutonica leachi Cazier, 1936: 124. Type locality: "Warner M[oun]t[ain]s (9,000 to 10,000 feet), Modoc Co[unty], Calif[ornia]" (original citation). Holotype (♀) in AMNH [# 1523]. Synonymy established by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 59) based on Leffler (1979a: 367) unpublished thesis. Etymology. The subspecific name was proposed in honor of Edwin R. Leach [1878-1971], an amateur coleopterist living in California who was chiefly interested in scarabaeids. Leach donated his collection, estimated at 40-50,000 specimens, to the California Academy of Sciences.
Distribution.
This rare species, also known as the "Alpine Tiger Beetle", ranges from southern Idaho to south-central Oregon, south to east-central California and west-central Utah [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 31]. The record from one locality in northern Montana (see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 31) is possibly based on a stray.
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USA: CA, ID, NV, OR, UT [MT]
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Cicindela plutonica Casey, 1897
Bousquet, Yves 2012 |
Cicindela plutonica leachi
Cazier 1936 |
Cicindela
Linnaeus 1758 |