Cicindela hirticollis shelfordi Graves, 1988

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Cicindela hirticollis shelfordi Graves, 1988

Cicindela hirticollis shelfordi Graves [in Graves et al.], 1988: 664. Type locality: "banks of Cimarron R[iver] near Guthrie [Logan County], Okla[homa]" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in USNM [# 105095]. Etymology. The subspecific name was proposed in honor of Professor Victor Ernest Shelford [1877-1968], animal ecologist and pioneer of North American tiger beetle biology.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the “Shelford’s Tiger Beetle", inhabits the Great Plains from southern Manitoba to southern Alberta, south to New Mexico and eastern Texas (Graves et al. 1988: 665, Fig. 6). Numerous state records (e.g., AR, AZ, LA, MN, UT) listed by Erwin and Pearson (2008: 145) are reported here under other subspecies of Cicindela hirticollis .

Records.

CAN: AB, MB, SK USA: CO, IA, KS, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the nominate form over a large area west of the Mississippi river, from southern Manitoba to Louisiana (Graves et al. 1988: Fig. 6), and with the corpuscula form along the Green River in eastern Utah (Graves et al. 1988: 666).