Cicindela splendida Hentz, 1830

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Cicindela splendida Hentz, 1830

Cicindela splendida Hentz, 1830: 254. Type locality: "North Carolina" (original citation), herein restricted to Asheville, Buncombe County (see Harris 1911: 7). One possible syntype in MCZ [# 20].

Cicindela purpurea splendida f. cyanocephala Varas Arangua, 1929: 239 [primary homonym of Cicindela cyanocephala Fabricius, 1798]. Type locality: "Kansas, Nebraska" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Schincariol and Freitag (1991: 1345). 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 before 1985 as the valid name of a subspecies (e.g., Leng and Mutchler 1933: 9) (see ICZN 1999: Article 45.6.4.1).

Cicindela splendida var. cyanocephalata Eckhoff, 1939: 211. Replacement name for Cicindela splendida var. cyanocephala Varas Arangua, 1929.

Cicindela splendida var. cyanocephalonota Eckhoff, 1970: 32. Unnecessary replacement name for Cicindela splendida var. cyanocephalata Eckhoff, 1939.

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Splendid Tiger Beetle", occurs from southern Pennsylvania to eastern Wyoming, north to southern Wisconsin, south to central Texas, northeastern Georgia, and northern South Carolina [see Schincariol and Freitag 1991: Fig. 13; Pearson et al. 1997: Fig. 20]; The records from "New York" (Schaupp 1884a: 90), “Minnesota” (Horn 1928: 10), and "New Mexico" (Freitag 1999: 50, 51) need confirmation.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, CO, DC, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NE, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV, WY [MN, NM, NY]

Note.

1. The name Cicindela discus , credited to Klug (1834: 23), is often listed as a synonym of Cicindela splendida Hentz but Klug did not apply the name to a new species. 2. According to Pearson et al. (2006: 91), recent DNA studies on this species, Cicindela denverensis and Cicindela limbalis suggest that members of all three could be conspecific. Spomer et al. (2008a: 23) noted that this species hybridizes with Cicindela denverensis in a narrow zone in central Nebraska and possibly also with Cicindela limbalis .