Habroscelimorpha dorsalis media (LeConte, 1856)
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Habroscelimorpha dorsalis media (LeConte, 1856) |
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Habroscelimorpha dorsalis media (LeConte, 1856) View in CoL
Cicindela media LeConte, 1856a: 47. Type locality: "sea coast of Georgia and South Carolina" (original citation), herein restricted to Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina (see Cartwright 1935: 75). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 23].
Distribution.
This subspecies, the "Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle", is found along the Atlantic Coast from Ocean County in New Jersey to southern Florida (Boyd and Rust 1982: 234).
Records.
USA: DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, NJ, SC, VA
Note.
According to Knisley and Schultz (1997: 103), the ranges of this form and of the dorsalis form are contiguous in southern New Jersey, the southern tip of coastal Virginia, and near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on the Virginia side and little intergradation can be observed on those sites.
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