Cicindela formosa generosa Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 247-248

Cicindela formosa generosa Dejean, 1831

Cicindela generosa Dejean, 1831: 231. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to Ballardvale, Essex County, Massachusetts (see Harris 1911: 2). Syntype(s) in MHNP.

Cicindela formosa var. manitoba Leng, 1902: 137. Type locality: "Aweme, Manitoba" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Dahl (1941: 170), in AMNH [# 1219]. Synonymy established by Horn (1926: 263). Note. Rumpp (1986: 145) listed this name in synonymy with the nominotypical subspecies.

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Eastern Sand Tiger Beetle", ranges from Kings County in Nova Scotia (Neil and Majka 2008: 4) to southern Manitoba, south to northeastern South Dakota (Spomer et al. 2008a: 21), central Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and southern Virginia (Gaumer 1977: 202-203). The records from “Saskatchewan,” “Montana,” “Nebraska” (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 136), “Colorado” (Leng 1902: 136), and “Alabama” (Freitag 1999: 25) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: MB, NS, ON, QC USA: AR, CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV [AL, CO, MT, NE, SK]