Opilidia chlorocephala smythi (Harris, 1913)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 217

Opilidia chlorocephala smythi (Harris, 1913)

Cicindela smythi E.D. Harris, 1913: 67. Type locality: "ocean side of Padre Island [Kenedy County], Texas" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 23551]. Etymology. This species was named after Eugene Graywood Smyth [1886-1975], economic entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture. Smyth had an interest in tiger beetles.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the “Smyth’s Beach Tiger Beetle", is known only from the type locality in southeastern Texas. No specimens have been collected since the original ones (over 80 specimens) in June 1912.

Records.

USA: TX

Note.

The nominotypical subspecies is found along the Gulf Coast of Mexico, as far south as Veracruz, and from Honduras (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 290).