Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 234

Cicindela willistoni willistoni LeConte, 1879

Cicindela willistoni LeConte, 1879d: 507. Type locality: "Lake Como [Carbon County], Wyoming Territory" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 45]. Etymology. The specific name honors Samuel Wendell Williston [1852-1918], well known American paleontologist, dipterist, and teacher.

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the “Williston’s Tiger Beetle", is endemic to the Laramie Plain of Wyoming (Rumpp 1962: 168).

Records.

USA: WY

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the echo form to the west (Pearson et al. 2006: 114). In a cladistic analysis based on molecular data by Vogler and Welsh (1997), Cicindela willistoni clearly embedded within the subgenus Cicindela while morphological characters suggest that it belongs to the subgenus Cicindelidia .