Cicindela tranquebarica vibex Horn, 1867

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 247

Cicindela tranquebarica vibex Horn, 1867

Cicindela vibex G.H. Horn, 1867a: 395. Type locality: "Fort Klamath [Klamath County], Oregon" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Ward (1982: 61), in MCZ [# 33472].

Cicindela vulgaris var. roguensis E.D. Harris, 1901: 226. Type locality: "basin of the Rogue River, S[outh]-W[est] Oregon" (original citation). Syntype(s) [20 originally cited] in MCZ [# 25605]. Synonymy established by Harris (1911: 19).

Cicindela tranquebarica var. borealis E.D. Harris, 1911: 19. Type locality: "Kootenay region of British Columbia" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 25604]. Synonymy established by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 61) based on Leffler (1979a: 578) unpublished thesis. Note. Harris (1911: 19) stated that the taxon is "a race indigenous to the Kootenay region of British Columbia" but listed it from Spokane in Washington, Provo in Utah, as well as Kaslo, Lardo River, Ainsworth, and Bear Foot Mountains in British Columbia.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the "Wealed Tiger Beetle", ranges from British Columbia to western Montana, south to northern Utah and northern California [see Kritsky and Horner 1998: Fig. 5]. The record from "Northwest Territories" (Boyd 1982: 10) is probably in error.

Records.

CAN: BC USA: CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY

Note.

Freitag (1999: 55) and Pearson et al. (2006: 107) considered the form borealis as a valid subspecies although Pearson et al. stated that "perhaps the entire population represents a zone of intergradation and not a distinct subspecies." Erwin and Pearson (2008: 195) also retained the roguensis form as a distinct subspecies listing it from several western states (i.e., ID, OR, MT, NV, WA, WY).