Habroscelimorpha praetextata praetextata (LeConte, 1854)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 221

Habroscelimorpha praetextata praetextata (LeConte, 1854)

Cicindela praetextata LeConte, 1854d: 220. Type locality: "San Diego to El Paso" (original citation); "probably found in the valley of the Gila" (LeConte 1856a: 58), herein restricted to Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (see Harris 1911: 53). Lectotype (♂), designated by Acciavatti (1981: 233), in MCZ [# 32].

Distribution.

This subspecies, also known as the "Riparian Tiger Beetle", is found from the Gila River Basin in eastern Arizona westwards to the Salton Sea Basin in California, north to southern Nevada [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 74]. The record from New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 155) needs confirmation. According to Erwin and Pearson (2008: 251), the species has been extirpated from many of its historic sites.

Records.

USA: AZ, CA, NV [NM]