Cicindela punctulata chihuahuae Bates, 1890

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 229

Cicindela punctulata chihuahuae Bates, 1890

Cicindela punctulata var. chihuahuae Bates, 1890: 500. Type locality: "Arizona; Mexico: Santa Clara in Chihuahua, and Chihuahua City" (original citation). Syntype(s) in BMNH.

Cicindela fontinaria Casey, 1916: 33. Type locality: "Jemez Springs [Sandoval County], New Mexico" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45960]. Synonymy established by Boyd (1982: 11).

Distribution.

This subspecies, the "Chihuahua Tiger Beetle", is known from northeastern Colorado to west-central Nevada [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 56], south to Chihuahua (Cazier 1954: 253). The records from Oklahoma (Drew and Van Cleave 1962: 113), “Nebraska,” “Kansas,” and “Texas” (Freitag 1999: 68) apparently refer to intergrades and these records are registered under the nominotypical subspecies.

Records.

USA: AZ, CO, NM, NV, UT - Mexico

Note.

Bertholf (1983: 21) listed this form in synonymy with the nominotypical subspecies.