Cicindela sexguttata Fabricius, 1775

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 : 715

Cicindela sexguttata Fabricius – Six-spotted tiger

beetle (S5)

No specimens of C. sexguttata were collected during our northern Ontario surveys. Cicindela sexguttata is a widespread and locally common southern Ontario tiger beetle species, barely ranging into northern Ontario along the Lake Huron North Channel and in the Sudbury area. Wallis (1961) lists the species from Hymers (presumably the Hymers in Thunder Bay District) but does not map this location, which is well north of the C. sexguttata range as mapped by Pearson et al. (2015) and closer to the range of C. denikei . This record is mapped as questionable on our distribution map ( Fig. 11 ). Graves (1964) mentions a C. sexguttata specimen in the McMaster University collection that is labelled as being from Timmins, Cochrane District; however, this location is also well north of the generally accepted range of C. sexguttata and is mapped here as questionable ( Fig. 11 ). Cicindela sexguttata is often found on loamy to sandy soils in eastern hardwood forests and occasionally in mixed open pine forest (Pearson et al. 2015).

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Fig. 11. Northern Ontario distribution map showing Cicindela sexguttata.