Cicindela rufiventris rufiventris Dejean, 1825

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Cicindela rufiventris rufiventris Dejean, 1825

Cicindela rufiventris Dejean, 1825: 102. Type locality: "Saint-Domingue [= Dominican Republic or Hispaniola]" (original citation), which is incorrect; East Plains, a desert tract of stunted pines and oaks, near Brookville, about ten miles inland from Barnegat, Ocean County, New Jersey (see Leng 1902: 177) herein selected. Syntype(s) in MHNP.

Cicindela rufiventris collusor Casey, 1913: 39. Type locality not stated. Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in USNM [# 45967]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 386).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Eastern Red-bellied Tiger Beetle", ranges from southwestern Vermont (Leonard and Bell 1999: 104) to southwestern Missouri, south to east-central Texas and the Florida Panhandle [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 64].

Records.

USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the cumatilis form through southern Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana (Pearson et al. 2006: 131). Another subspecies, Cicindela rufiventris reducens Horn, is known from the states of Jalisco and Colima in Mexico.