Cicindela limbalis Klug, 1834

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Cicindela limbalis Klug, 1834

Cicindela limbalis Klug, 1834: 29. Type locality: «Nord-Amerika» (original citation), herein restricted to Eastport, Washington County, Maine (see LeConte, 1846b: 177, as Cicindela spreta ). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) location unknown.

Cicindela amoena LeConte, 1846b: 177. Type locality: "prope provinciae Missouri terminum occidentalem" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MCZ [# 1]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1863b: 1).

Cicindela spreta LeConte, 1846b: 177. Type locality: "Eastport [Washington County], Maine" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ. Synonymy established by LeConte (1863b: 1). Note. According to Frost (1920: 229), there is one syntype of this taxon in the LeConte collection and another one in the Harris collection labeled "Eastport, Me" and the manuscript number “1502.” The syntype in the LeConte collection is probably mixed with LeConte’s specimens of Cicindela limbalis .

Cicindela purpurea var. transversa Leng, 1902: 131. Type locality: «Ill[inois]» (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♂), designated by Dahl (1941: 171), in AMNH [# 1221]. Synonymy established by Schincariol and Freitag (1991: 1346).

Cicindela limbalis awemeana Casey, 1913: 23. Type locality: "Aweme, Manitoba" (original citation). Four syntypes in USNM [# 45932]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 374).

Cicindela limbalis eldorensis Casey, 1913: 23. Type locality: "Eldora [Boulder County], Colorado" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45933]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 374).

Cicindela purpurea limbalis f. militaris Varas Arangua, 1929: 242. Type locality: "West Point, Ramsey y Peekskill [New York], Hartford, Conn[ecticut], Warwick, R[hode] I[sland], Rock City, N[ew] Y[ork]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Nicolay and Weiss (1932: 347). Note. Even if this taxon was originally proposed at an infrasubspecific rank, it is deemed to be subspecific from its original publication because it was adopted as the valid name of a subspecies before 1985 (e.g., Leng and Mutchler 1933: 9) (see ICZN 1999: Article 45.6.4.1).

Cicindela sedalia Smyth, 1933: 201. Type locality: "Sedalia [Douglas County, Colorado]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Kippenhan (1994: 47).

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Common Claybank Tiger Beetle", ranges from Newfoundland to eastern British Columbia, north to northern Yukon Territory (Eagle River, Sydney G. Cannings pers. comm. 2009), south to eastern Utah, northern New Mexico, central Missouri, southern Pennsylvania, and New Jersey [see Schincariol and Freitag 1991: Fig. 13; Pearson et al. 1997: Fig. 3]. According to Knisley and Schultz (1997: 114), the literature records from Virginia, western North Carolina, and northwestern Georgia could refer instead to Cicindela splendida . The record from the District of Columbia (Boyd 1982: 8) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, QC, SK, YT USA: CO, CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, UT, VT, WI, WY [DC, GA, NC, VA]

Note.

Spomer et al. (2008a: 25) noted that this species intergrades occasionally with Cicindela denverensis , rarely with Cicindela splendida . Based on results from a limited mitochondrial DNA analysis, Woodcock and Knisley (2010) concluded that Cicindela limbalis , Cicindela splendida , and Cicindela denverensis may represent a single species.