Cicindela senilis Horn, 1867

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 231-232

Cicindela senilis Horn, 1867

Cicindela senilis G.H. Horn, 1867a: 395. Type locality: «California» (original citation), herein restricted to San Rafael, Alameda County (see Leng 1902: 142). Lectotype (♂), designated by Ward (1982: 60), in MCZ [# 33471].

Cicindela senilis exoleta Casey, 1909: 272. Type locality: "Oakland [Alameda County], California" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45927]. Synonymy established by Harris (1911: 22).

Cicindela senilis frosti Varas Arangua, 1928: 174. Type locality: "Manhattan, Los Angeles Co[unty], California" (original citation). Syntype(s) [2 ♂ originally cited] in CAS [# 8149]. Synonymy established by Cazier (1937a: 159). Etymology. The subspecific name was proposed in honor of Charles Albert Frost [1872-1962], a civil engineer with the Waterworks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission in Massachusetts and amateur coleopterist. Frost left his collection of more than 50,000 specimens to the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Senile Tiger Beetle", is found along western California, as far north as Sonoma and Lake Counties, and the northern part of the Baja California Peninsula. According to Pearson et al. (2006: 116), it is now known in the United States only from a few protected coastal populations and two interior populations, one near Lake Elsinore in western Riverside County and one near Jacumba in San Diego County.

Records.

USA: CA (CHI) - Mexico