Cicindela rufiventris hentzii Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 230

Cicindela rufiventris hentzii Dejean, 1831

Cicindela haemorrhoidalis T.W. Harris, 1828a: 91 [primary homonym of Cicindela haemorrhoidalis Wiedemann, 1823]. Type locality not stated. Two possible syntypes in MCZ (collection Harris). Note. Gould (1834: 53) reported that this species was first discovered by Harris on the "summit of Blue Hill, in Milton [Norfolk County, Massachusetts]."

Cicindela haemorrhoidalis Hentz, 1830: 254 [primary homonym of Cicindela haemorrhoidalis Wiedemann, 1823]. Type locality: «Massachusetts» (original citation). Syntype(s) lost. Synonymy established with Cicindela hentzii Dejean by Dejean (1833: 4).

Cicindela hentzii Dejean, 1831: 248 (as heutzii). Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (see Frost, 1920: 230 as Cicindela hentzi var. niveihamata). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP. Synonymy established by Gould (1834: 52). Etymology. The specific name honors Nicholas Marcellus Hentz [1797-1856], the first authority on spiders in the United States. In his early years, Hentz published on beetles and described new species from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. His collection, consisting of about 1,500 species, most of them Coleoptera from all parts of the United States, was purchased for $550 by friends and presented to the Boston Society of Natural History in 1836 (Weiss 1936: 280); little was left of the collection by 1861 (Wilson 1973: 71). Note. This name was originally proposed under the spelling heutzii because Dejean believed the name of the collector was Heutz. LeConte (1856a: 55) emended Dejean’s name to hentzii since the name of the collector was Hentz. This is an unjustified emendation. However since the emendation is in prevailing usage and attributed to the original author and date, it is deemed to be a justified emendation (ICZN 1999: Article 33.2.3.1) and the spelling becomes the correct original spelling (ICZN 1999: Article 32.2.2).

Cicindela erythrogaster T.W. Harris [in Scudder], 1891: 138. Type locality not stated. Holotype [by monotypy] lost. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 386).

Cicindela hentzi var. niveihamata Frost, 1920: 230. Type locality: "Middlesex Fells Reservation near the shore of Spot Pond in the town of Stoneham [Middlesex County], Mass[achusetts]" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in MCZ [# 34727]. Synonymy established by Horn (1926: 287).

Distribution.

This subspecies, the “Hentz’s Tiger Beetle", is found only along eastern Massachusetts [see Leonard and Bell 1999: Fig. 111]. The record from "Rhode Island" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 64) is in error or based on a stray.

Records.

USA: MA