Cicindela repanda
 | Cicindela repanda |
| From a sand bar in the Little River in Blount Co., TN. That particular site is literally crawling
with C. repanda and a few C.
tranquebarica - I watched over
300 individuals in an area of 50 square
meters. |
Kellogg, 1905 |
| C. repanda generally inhabits sandy areas near water, and as noted above can be very abundant locally.
This is one of the most widespread species of tiger beetles in North America,
ranging from Nova Scotia to south-central Florida in the east to Oregon and Washington in the west.
It is absent from far southern Louisiana and Mississippi. |
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References
- Kellogg, V.L. 1905. American Insects. Henry Holt and Company, New York.
- Knisley, C.B., and T.D. Schultz. 1997. The Biology of Tiger Beetles and a Guide to the Species
of the South Atlantic States. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Special
Publication Number 5. VMNH, Martinsville, VA.
- Leonard, J.G., and R.T. Bell. 1998. Northeastern Tiger Beetles. A Field Guide to Tiger Beetles of
New England and Eastern Canada. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
- Pearson, D.L., T.G. Barraclough, and A.P. Vogler. 1997. Distributional maps for North American species of tiger beetles
(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Cicindela: 29:33-84.
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