Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879
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Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879 |
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Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879
Cicindela willistoni LeConte, 1879d: 507. Type locality: "Lake Como [Carbon County], Wyoming Territory" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 45]. Etymology. The specific name honors Samuel Wendell Williston [1852-1918], well known American paleontologist, dipterist, and teacher.
Distribution.
This subspecies, also known as the “Williston’s Tiger Beetle", is endemic to the Laramie Plain of Wyoming (Rumpp 1962: 168).
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USA: WY
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This subspecies intergrades with the echo form to the west (Pearson et al. 2006: 114). In a cladistic analysis based on molecular data by Vogler and Welsh (1997), Cicindela willistoni clearly embedded within the subgenus Cicindela while morphological characters suggest that it belongs to the subgenus Cicindelidia .
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Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879
Bousquet, Yves 2012 |
Cicindela willistoni
LeConte 1879 |