Cylindera celeripes (LeConte, 1846)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 210

Cylindera celeripes (LeConte, 1846)

Cicindela celeripes LeConte, 1846b: 183. Type locality: "ad fluminis Kansas Republican Fork [Kansas]" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 4]. Note. According to MacRae and Brown (2011b: 231), the type locality is the area occupied by present day Fort Riley Military Reservation in the Flint Hills near Junction City, Riley County, Kansas, at the confluence of the Kansas and Republican Rivers.

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Swift Tiger Beetle", has been recorded from Nebraska and western Iowa south to north-central Texas and north-central Arkansas [see MacRae and Brown 2011b: Fig. 8]. The record from Indiana (Montgomery and Montgomery 1931: 359) was based on misidentified Cylindera cursitans (Knisley et al. 1990: 279); those from “Illinois,” and “Dakota” (Leng 1902: 117) are in error or based on strays. According to MacRae and Brown (2011b: 230), once abundant in Nebraska, western Iowa, and eastern Kansas, the species has declined below detectable levels in much of this area during the past century.

Records.

USA: AR, IA, KS, MO, NE, OK, TX