Cicindela purpurea purpurea Olivier, 1790

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 240

Cicindela purpurea purpurea Olivier, 1790

Cicindela purpurea Olivier, 1790a: [No. 33] 14. Type locality: «Géorgie» (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in MHNP).

Cicindela marginalis Fabricius, 1801: 240. Type locality: «Canada» (original citation). One syntype in ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 64). Synonymy established with doubt by Say (1818: 419).

Cicindela purpurea var. ramosa Gistel, 1837: 31. Type locality: "America septentrionali, Canada" (original citation). Syntype(s) lost. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 373).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Cow Path Tiger Beetle", ranges from southern Quebec to Minnesota, south to central Arkansas and northern Georgia [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 28]. Beaton (2008: 39) indicated that despite extensive search he was unable to find any population of this species in Georgia, including at all known historical sites, and Ciegler (1997: 189) noted that it has not been collected in South Carolina since 1936. The record from "Nova Scotia" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 59) was based on a misidentified specimen (see Majka et al. 2007: 6); that from "New Brunswick" (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 175) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV [NB]

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the audubonii form over a wide area from North Dakota to Oklahoma (Pearson et al. 2006: 86).