Cicindela marginipennis Dejean, 1831

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

Cicindela marginipennis Dejean, 1831

Cicindela marginipennis Dejean, 1831: 260. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to the banks of the Susquehanna below the bridge at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (see Leng 1902: 179). Syntype(s) in MHNP.

Distribution.

The range of this species, also known as the "Cobblestone Tiger Beetle", is disjunct: one population is known from New Brunswick (Sabine 2005: 53) south to central New Jersey (Boyd 1978: Fig. 28), northwestern West Virginia (Allen and Acciavatti 2002: 26), southeastern Kentucky (Laudermilk et al. 2010: 28), and southeastern Indiana; the second is found in northeastern Mississippi and western Alabama [see Pearson et al. 2006: Map 67]. The record from "South Carolina" (Choate 2003: Map 30) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: NB USA: AL, IN, KY, ME, MS, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VT, WV [SC]

Note.

This species is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2007) and has been extirpated from many historical sites (Erwin and Pearson 2008: 155).