Cicindela formosa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Cicindelinae
Tribus: Cicindelini
Subtribus: Cicindelina
Genus: Cicindela
Species: Cicindela formosa
Name

Cicindela formosa Say, 1817

References
Links

Lorenz, W. 2018. CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles (version Oct 2017). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 20th December 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on December 3, 2018]

Cicindela formosa, the big sand tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3][4]
Big sand tiger beetle, Cicindela formosa

Subspecies

Cicindela formosa pigmentosignata

These six subspecies belong to the species Cicindela formosa:

Cicindela formosa formosa Say, 1817 (big sand tiger beetle)
Cicindela formosa generosa Dejean, 1831 (big sand tiger beetle)
Cicindela formosa gibsoni Brown, 1940 (Gibson's sand tiger beetle)
Cicindela formosa luxuriosa Casey
Cicindela formosa pigmentosignata W. Horn, 1930 (big sand tiger beetle)
Cicindela formosa rutilovirescens Rumpp, 1986

References

"Cicindela formosa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
"Cicindela formosa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
"Cicindela formosa species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.

Further reading

Allen, Thomas J.; Acciavatti, Robert E. (2002). Tiger Beetles of West Virginia (PDF). West Virginia Department of Natural Resources.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.