Cicindela scutellaris lecontei Haldeman, 1853

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 240-241

Cicindela scutellaris lecontei Haldeman, 1853

Cicindela lecontei Haldeman, 1853: 361. Type locality: «Wisconsin» (original citation). One possible syntype, a ♀ labeled "[yellow disc] / C. Lecontei Hald. [handwritten]," in MCZ (collection LeConte).

Cicindela criddlei Casey, 1913: 19. Type locality: "Aweme, Manitoba" (original citation). Four syntypes [4 originally cited] in USNM [# 45916]. Synonymy established by Wallis (1961: 35).

Distribution.

This subspecies, the “LeConte’s Tiger Beetle", ranges from southern Quebec to southern Manitoba (Wallis 1961: 35-36), south to Kansas, northern Mississippi, West Virginia, and Connecticut [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 43). The records from “Saskatchewan” and “Alberta” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 60) refer to the nominotypical subspecies.

Records.

CAN: MB, ON, QC USA: CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, ND, NE, NH, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, VT, WI, WV

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the nominate form over a broad area in the Great Plains and with the unicolor form in northern Missouri and Tennessee (Pearson et al. 2006: 102, 103).