Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsalis (Say, 1817)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 219-220

Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsalis (Say, 1817)

Cicindela dorsalis Say, 1817b: 20. Type locality: "New Jersey" (original citation), herein restricted to Ocean City, Cape May County (see Boyd 1978: 231). Syntype(s) lost.

Cicindela signata Dejean, 1825: 124. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MHNP. Synonymy established by Dejean (1826: 414).

Cicindela dorsalis semipicta Casey, 1897: 299 [primary homonym of Cicindela semipicta Fairmaire, 1871]. Type locality not stated. One syntype in USNM [# 45994]. Synonymy established by Leng (1902: 161).

Cicindela munifica Casey, 1913: 31. Type locality: "Rhode Island" (original citation). Two syntypes in USNM [# 45993]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 392).

Cicindela dorsalis lineoscripta Casey, 1924: 16. Replacement name for Cicindela dorsalis semipicta Casey, 1897.

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle", once occurred along the Atlantic Coast from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to the Chesapeake Bay. It is now found at two isolated sites on the coast of Massachusetts and along both shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia (Boyd and Rust 1982: 234; Pearson et al. 2006: 144). The subspecies was successfully reintroduced at Sandy Hook, New Jersey (Pearson et al. 2006: 192). The records from “Delaware” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 65) and from near Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Cresson 1861: 12) are probably based on strays.

Records.

USA: CT, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VA

Note.

This subspecies is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in 1990 (Pearson et al. 2006: 191).