Cicindela obsoleta obsoleta Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 226

Cicindela obsoleta obsoleta Say, 1823

Cicindela obsoleta Say, 1823b: 143. Type locality: "banks of the Arkansa river, near the mountains, Missouri Territory [= probably Colorado]" (original citation). Syntype(s) lost.

Cicindela prasina LeConte, 1856a: 31. Type locality: "Arkansas River below Bent’s Fort [Colorado]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MCZ [# 33]. Synonymy established by Cresson (1861: 15), confirmed by Mawdsley (2009: 5).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Large Grassland Tiger Beetle", ranges from western Kansas to central Arizona, north to northern Colorado (Kippenhan 1994: 66), south to southern New Mexico and southwestern Texas; also known from one locality in eastern Kansas [see Mawdsley 2009: Fig. 18]. The record from “Utah” (Boyd 1982: 11) is likely in error.

Records.

USA: AZ, CO, KS, NM, OK, TX

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the santaclarae form in New Mexico and western Texas (Mawdsley 2009: 6). Two other subspecies of this species are found in Mexico, Cicindela obsoleta juvenilis Horn from the states of Jalisco, Nayarit, Sonora, and Sinaloa and Cicindela obsoleta latemaculata Becker from the state of Durango (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 159, 160).