Cicindela oregona guttifera LeConte, 1856

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 257

Cicindela oregona guttifera LeConte, 1856

Cicindela guttifera LeConte, 1856a: 42. Type locality: "Santa Fe [Santa Fe County], New Mexico" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 13].

Cicindela sterope Casey, 1913: 28. Type locality: «Kansas» (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45991]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 378).

Cicindela audax Casey, 1913: 29. Type locality: «Colorado» (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 45980]. Synonymy established by Horn (1915: 378).

Cicindela oregona oregonella Casey, 1924: 16. Type locality: "Deer Creek, Provo Cañon, Utah" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in USNM [# 45983]. Synonymy established by Freitag (1965: 111).

Distribution.

This subspecies, the "Dappled Tiger Beetle", ranges from eastern Alaska to western Northwest Territories, north to above the Arctic Circle (Brzoska 2008: 65), south to the Queen Charlotte Islands and, along the Rocky Mountains, to central New Mexico [see Freitag 1965: Fig. 18]; also recorded from “Arizona” (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 163) and “Idaho” (Boyd 1982: 7).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (QCI), NT, YT USA: AK, CO, KS, MT, NM, UT, WY [AZ, ID]

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the nominate form in southern British Columbia south, along the crest of the Rocky Mountains, to central Utah, with the navajoensis form in western Colorado and New Mexico, and with the maricopa form in western Utah (Pearson et al. 2006: 68).