Cicindela nigrocoerulea nigrocoerulea LeConte, 1846

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 225-226

Cicindela nigrocoerulea nigrocoerulea LeConte, 1846

Cicindela nigrocoerulea LeConte, 1846b: 181. Type locality: "ad flumen Arkansas" (original citation); cited from "near Bent’s Fort [Colorado] on the Arkansas River" by LeConte (1856a: 35). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 27]. Note. According to Leng (1902: 124), LeConte’s original specimens consisted of "one pair found near Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas River, about 100 miles east of Pueblo, Col., and between Upper Dry Creek and Lower Dry Creek."

Cicindela robusta Leng, 1902: 124. Type locality: "Alpine [Brewster County], Tex[as]" (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♀), designated by Dahl (1941: 190), in AMNH [# 1231]. Synonymy established (as aberration) by Horn (1905: 21).

Cicindela [nigrocoerulea] feminalis Casey, 1909: 269. Type locality: "Las Animas [Bent County], Colorado" (original citation). Three syntypes in USNM [# 45906]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 381).

Cicindela snowi Casey, 1909: 269. Type locality: "Congress Junction [Yavapai County], Arizona" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45908]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 381).

Cicindela [snowi] triplicans Casey, 1909: 270. Type locality: "Robinson [probably Robinson Place, Moffat County], Colorado" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45907]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 381).

Cicindela [snowi] velutoidea Casey, 1909: 270. Type locality: "probably Colorado" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in USNM [# 45909]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 381).

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Black Sky Tiger Beetle", occurs from Salton Sea in southern California (LaRue 1991: 49) and southernmost Nevada (Kippenhan 200 2: 381) to western Texas (Gaumer and Murray 1971: 10), north to southwestern Utah (Tanner 1929a: 85) and northeastern Colorado (Kippenhan 1990: 311), south to Aguascalientes and San Luis Potosí in Mexico (Cazier 1960: 8).

Records.

USA: AZ, CA, CO, KS, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT - Mexico