Cicindela abdominalis Fabricius, 1801

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 223

Cicindela abdominalis Fabricius, 1801

Cicindela abdominalis Fabricius, 1801: 237. Type locality: «Carolina» (original citation), herein restricted to McClellanville, Charleston County, South Carolina (see Cartwright 1935: 74). One syntype in ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 64).

Cicindela ventralis Newman [in Doubleday], 1838: 414 [primary homonym of Cicindela ventralis Dejean, 1825]. Type locality: "S[ain]t John’s Bluff [Duval County], Florida" (original citation). Syntype(s) [9 originally cited] location unknown. Synonymy established by Harris and Leng (1916: 18).

Cicindela abdominalis faceta Casey, 1913: 38. Type locality not stated. Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in USNM [# 45969]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 385), confirmed by Choate (1984: 75).

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Eastern Pinebarrens Tiger Beetle", is found mainly along the Coastal Plain and Piedmont Plateau from Long Island in southeastern New York (Leng 1928: 206) to central Florida, west to southeastern Louisiana [see Pearson et al. 1997: Fig. 11].

Records.

USA: AL, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, VA