Cicindela scutellaris scutellaris Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 242

Cicindela scutellaris scutellaris Say, 1823

Cicindela scutellaris Say, 1823b: 140 (as scutelaris). Type locality: "the Arkansa [River]" (original citation). Syntype(s) lost. Note. The incorrect subsequent spelling scutellaris is in prevailing usage and attributed to the publication of the original spelling; therefore it is deemed to be the correct original spelling (ICZN 1999: Article 33.3.1).

Cicindela scutellaris billingsi Casey, 1924: 14. Type locality: "Billings [Yellowstone County], Montana" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in USNM [# 45915]. Synonymy established by Horn (1926: 276).

Cicindela shantzi Casey, 1924: 14. Type locality: «Colorado» (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in USNM [# 45914]. Synonymy established by Horn (1926: 276).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Festive Tiger Beetle", ranges from southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta (Wallis 1961: 35) south to east-central New Mexico (Acciavatti et al. 1980: 30), northern Texas (Gaumer and Murray 1971: 10), Arkansas (Graves and Pearson 1973: 175), and northwestern Mississippi (Bolivar County, Drew A. Hildebrandt pers. comm. 2009). The record from “Iowa” (Freitag 1999: 49) probably refers to the lecontei form.

Records.

CAN: AB, SK USA: AR, CO, KS, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY

Note.

According to Pearson et al. (2006: 102), this subspecies intergrades with the lecontei form over a broad zone in eastern South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.