Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis Say, 1817

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 254

Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis Say, 1817

Cicindela hirticollis Say, 1817b: 20. Type locality: «Pennsylvania» (original citation). Syntype(s) lost.

Cicindela albohirta Dejean, 1826: 425. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). Syntype(s) [2 ♂ originally cited] in MHNP. Synonymy established by LeConte (1846b: 180).

Cicindela unita Kollar, 1836: 330. Type locality: "America boreali" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Melsheimer (1853: 2).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Hairy-necked Tiger Beetle", ranges east of the Mississippi River from New Jersey to southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 16), west to the Mississippi River Valley (Graves et al. 1988: 658, Fig. 6) then north to the southern region of the Great Lakes. According to Allen and Acciavatti (2002: 12), this subspecies is considered rare and even endangered throughout the Ohio River drainage and other regions. The records from Oklahoma (Drew and Van Cleave 1962: 110), “Kansas,” and “Nebraska” (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 144) are based on intergrades and are recorded here under the shelfordi form; that from “Utah” (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 144) is probably in error or based on a stray.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the shelfordi form along the Mississippi River and with the rhodensis form in the southern Great Lakes region and at Long Island, New York (Graves et al. 1988: 658, 661, 663).