Cicindela nigrocoerulea bowditchi Leng, 1902

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 225

Cicindela nigrocoerulea bowditchi Leng, 1902

Cicindela bowditchi Leng, 1902: 124. Type locality: "vicinity of Durango [La Plata County], Colo[rado]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Dahl (1941: 190), in MCZ [# 16272]. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Frederick Channing Bowditch [c. 1853-1925], a conveyancer by profession and amateur coleopterist. Bowditch accompanied Samuel Hubbard Scudder in Colorado and Wyoming to collect fossils from Florissant shales.

Distribution.

This subspecies, the “Bowditch’s Tiger Beetle", is known from southwestern Colorado (Kippenhan 1994: 65) and northwestern New Mexico (Rumpp 1962: 172). The record from “Arizona” (Boyd 1982: 11) is in error or based on a stray.

Records.

USA: CO, NM

Note.

This subspecies intergrades with the nominate form in north-central New Mexico (Pearson et al. 2006: 119).