Cicindela (Cicindelidia), Rivalier, 1954

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 222

Subgenus Cicindelidia Rivalier, 1954

Cicindelidia Rivalier, 1954: 255. Type species: Cicindela carthagena Dejean, 1831 by original designation. Etymology. From the generic name Cicindela [q.v.] and the Latin suffix - idia (little, small), probably alluding to the small size (" toutes les espèces sont de taille petite ou moyenne ") of adults of these tiger beetles [feminine].

Diversity.

Western Hemisphere, with about 65 species (Lorenz 2005: 48-49) in the Nearctic (21 species, 42 species-group taxa) and Neotropical (about 55 species).

Faunistic Note.

1. Cicindela fera Chevrolat is known north of Mexico from a single specimen collected in the 1950s at the southern border of Arizona and New Mexico (Pearson et al. 2006: 125). The specimen was probably a stray and the species is not listed here as a North American entity. 2. Cicindela sommeri Mannerheim is known from the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico and from several specimens labeled from San Diego County, California (Leng 1902: 181; Pearson et al. 2006: 136). However, there is serious doubt about the origin of the California specimens and the species is not included here as a North American entity.