Cicindela willistoni echo Casey, 1897

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 233

Cicindela willistoni echo Casey, 1897

Cicindela echo Casey, 1897: 298. Type locality: "Great Salt Lake, Utah" (original citation). Four syntypes in USNM [# 45923].

Cicindela echo amedeensis Casey, 1909: 272 (as amadeensis). Type locality: "Amedee, Cal[ifornia]" (original citation). Two syntypes in USNM [# 45924]. Synonymy established by Harris (1911: 23).

Cicindela spaldingi Casey, 1924: 14. Type locality: "Callao [Juab County], Utah" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45922]. Synonymy established by Boyd (1982: 10). Etymology. The specific name was proposed in honor of Thomas Utting Spalding [1866-1929]. Born in England, Spalding came to America and headed west in search of gold. He eventually settled in Utah and became an excellent collector of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera which he sold to students in the east. In 1918 alone, his Lepidoptera sales amounted to $1,150 (Tanner 1929b: 344). At that time he started selling beetles to Thomas Casey who bought in all 820 specimens from him.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the "Echo Tiger Beetle", is found mainly within the Great Basin from Wyoming to southern Oregon, south to east-central California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah (Pearson et al. 2006: 114).

Records.

USA: CA, ID, NV, OR, UT, WY