Cicindela trifasciata ascendens LeConte, 1851

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Cicindela trifasciata ascendens LeConte, 1851

Cicindela ascendens LeConte, 1851: 172. Type locality: «Georgia» (original citation), herein restricted to Saint Simons Island, Glynn County (see Beaton 2008: 41). Holotype [by monotypy] in MCZ [# 2].

Cicindela serpens LeConte, 1851: 173. Type locality: "Key West [Monroe County], Florida" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 34]. Synonymy established by Leng (1902: 160).

Distribution.

This highly vagile subspecies, also known as the "Ascendant Tiger Beetle", is found primarily along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Virginia to southern Florida, west to eastern Texas [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 70], south to Panama (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 197). This form has also been found inland as far north as north-central Kansas (Charlton and Kopper 2000: 266) and along the Atlantic Coast as far north as Massachusetts (Comboni and Schultz 1989: 151); however there is no known established populations inland anywhere in North America (Pearson and Vogler 2001: 105). The record from the "West Indies" (LeConte 1856a: 51) needs confirmation.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, FL, GA, KS, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Note.

Besides the two subspecies found in North America, six other subspecies are recognized among this polymorphic species in Middle and South America and the West Indies.