Cicindela fascinans Casey, 1914

Acciavatti, Robert E., 2021, Taxonomic revision of Eunota togata (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in North America with a new subspecies from western Texas and New Mexico, United States, Insecta Mundi 2021 (848), pp. 1-32 : 14

Cicindela fascinans Casey, 1914 , new synonymy

Cicindela fascinans Casey 1914: 23 .

Type status. HOLOTYPE, male ( Fig. 7 ) [by monotypy]. Type labels. “Santa Rosa / 7/31/03 N.M. / 4626 ft ”; “fascinans/ Csy.”; “ CASEY / bequest / 1925”; “ TYPE USNM / 45953 ”; “ HOLOTYPE / by monotypy / in original / description”; “ Cicindela / fascinans / Casey seen by / R. E.Acciavatti,’14”; Eunota /togata / fascinans (Casey) / det. R. E.Acciavatti,’14” [formats of labels in Fig. 7 ]. Type depository. USNM, Washington, D.C., USA. Type locality. Santa Rosa , [Guadalupe County] New Mexico [in original description]. Type locality note: This taxon type locality ( Fig. 45 ) is herein fixed at site associated with several small, fresh water, artesian ponds created by collapsed sink holes south of Santa Rosa , Guadalupe County , New Mexico , above Pecos River with these GPS coordinates: 34.9118, −104.6695, 1400m. Habitat: Bare, salt encrusted soils developed downslope by water seepage from small ponds.

Cicindela togata fascinans Casey, 1914 : [( Willis 1967: 286) considered a junior synonym of C. togata globicollis Casey, 1913 ].

C. togata fascinans Casey, 1914 : [( Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 66) removed from synonymy with C. togata globicollis Casey, 1913 ].

Eunota togata fascinans ( Casey, 1914) : [( Bousquet 2012: 309) assigned as distinct subspecies of E. togata ( LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841) ].

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Figures 4–7. Eunota togata described subspecies males based on types and/or type locality specimens. 4) E. t. togata, type locality, Cameron County, Texas. 5) E. t. latilabris, type locality, Kackley, Kansas. 6) E. t. globicollis, lectotype, Clark County, Kansas. 7) E. t. fascinans, holotype, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Scale line = 2 mm.

Figures 42–45. Eunota togata described taxa type localities. 42) E. t. togata, TL: Port Isabel, Cameron Co., Texas; coastal saltwater estuaries. 43) E. t. latilabris, TL: Kackley, Republic Co., Kansas; salt marsh and brine pond on Saint John’s Creek. 44) E. t. globicollis, TL: Englewood, Clark Co., Kansas; saline banks of Cimarron River. 45) E. t. fascinans, TL: Santa Rosa, Guadalupe Co., New Mexico; saline soils from freshwater ponds above Pecos River.