Cicindela purpurea Olivier

Jumean, Z., Oldham, M. J., Fleming, K. J., Duran, D. P. & Beresford, D. V., 2017, Geographic Range Updates for the Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Northern Ontario, Canada, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (4), pp. 707-720 : 713-714

Cicindela purpurea Olivier – Cow path tiger

beetle (S4)

No specimens of C. purpurea were collected during our northern Ontario surveys. The only northern Ontario reports of C. purpurea are those of Lawton (2008), who collected the species from near Sioux Narrows and near Clear Lake, Rainy River District ( Fig. 8 ). Specimens from this area are included as mapped points in Pearson et al. (2015) but fall outside the distribution boundary identified within. The subspecies occurring in Ontario is C. purpurea purpurea (Pearson et al. 2015) . This

1 Records for C.longilabris contained in Wallis (1961) could not be mapped here since localities for this species are not provided in his publication.

species is typically located away from standing water in open fields, grasslands, and forest clearings (Pearson et al. 2015).

Cicindela repanda Dejean – Bronzed tiger beetle (S5)

Cicindela repanda has a broad North American distribution and can be found near sandy beaches

along lakes and rivers or in dry, sandy, or gravelly substrates (Pearson et al. 2015).

Our records, including one specimen from near the Manitoba border within 100 km of the Hudson Bay coast, extend the northern Ontario range by about 500 km west of the previous northernmost record at Cape Henrietta Maria , where it was reported by Wallis (1961) ( Fig. 9 ). This record is also well north of the Ontario range limits mapped by Pearson et al. (2015), filling in the gap along the northern Ontario-Manitoba border .

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Fig. 8. Northern Ontario distribution map showing previous collection records for Cicindela purpurea.

Fig. 9. Northern Ontario distribution map showing new and previous collection records for Cicindela repanda.