Cicindela depressula

Cicindela depressula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cicindelidae
Genus:	Cicindela
Species:	C. depressula
Binomial name
Cicindela depressula Casey, 1897

Cicindela depressula, the dispirited tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Cicindelidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in North America. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Subspecies

Two subspecies have been described:

• Cicindela depressula depressulaCasey, 1897, the Dispirited Tiger Beetle, is found in mountain ranges from southern Alaska south to the Sierra Nevada in east-central California and western Nevada; it is also found in the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and western Montana.
• Cicindela depressula eurekaFall, 1901, the Eureka Tiger Beetle, is found in a narrow area in proximity of the Pacific Coast from northern Washington State to northern California.

References

1. "Cicindela depressula Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
2. "Cicindela depressula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
3. Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.
4. Duran, Daniel P.; Gough, Harlan M. (2020). "Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), review and reclassification of tribal relationships". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4). doi:10.1111/syen.12440.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Freitag, Richard (1999). Catalogue of the tiger beetles of Canada and the United States, vii + 195.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Riley K, Browne R (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys 147: 601–621.