Cicindela roseiventris tascosaensis Davis, 1918

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

Cicindela roseiventris tascosaensis Davis, 1918

Cicindela roseiventris linearis W. Horn, 1905: 22 [primary homonym of Cicindela linearis Chaudoir, 1843]. Type locality: "San Carlos [= Cuidad Quesada], Costa Rica" (original citation). Five syntypes in DEI ( Döbler 1973: 406).

Cicindela tascosaensis W.T. Davis, 1918: 34. Type locality: "Tascosa [Oldham County], Texas" (original citation). Holotype (♂) location unknown. Synonymy established by Horn (in Davis 1922: 130). Note. The holotype was in W.T. Davis’ collection but is not at AMNH (Lee Herman pers. comm. 2009) or SIM (Hennessey 1990). One syntype exists in DEI ( Döbler 1973: 414).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Tascoa Tiger Beetle", has been recorded from Oldham County in northwestern Texas (Davis 1918: 34), Alajuela province in Costa Rica (Horn 1905: 22), and Panama (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 178).

Records.

USA: TX - Costa Rica, Panama

Note.

1. No specimens of this subspecies have been collected in United States since the original ones in 1917 and the subspecies has never been found in Mexico. Cazier (1954: 279) believed that the US specimens of Cicindela tascosaensis were probably mislabeled. However, Davis (1922: 130) wrote to the collector of the Texan specimens, Miss Mildred McGill, who replied on December 1920 that she remembered well collecting the tiger beetles "on the sandy, grassy spots of the ground, and on the wide floors of white sand rocks" about "a mile or a little more" of the house she lived in. 2. Two other subspecies, Cicindela roseiventris mexicana Klug and Cicindela roseiventris roseiventris Chevrolat, are found in Mexico and in Central America.