Cicindela senilis, or the senile tiger beetle is a species of tiger beetle found in western California.[1] It lives in tidal mud flats and both coastal and inland salt marshes.[2][3]
Cicindela senilis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cicindelidae |
Tribe: | Cicindelini |
Subtribe: | Cicindelina |
Genus: | Cicindela |
Species: | C. senilis
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Binomial name | |
Cicindela senilis |
Three subspecies are recognized:
- Cicindela senilis senilis (G.H. Horn, 1867)
- Cicindela senilis exoleta (Casey, 1909)
- Cicindela senilis frosti (Varas Arangua, 1928)
- Populations of Cicindela senilis frosti have been found in a salt marsh in Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, as well as in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego Counties.[4]
References
edit- ^ Bousquet, Yves (November 28, 2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ Knisley, C. Barry; Kippenhan, Mike; Brzoska, David (2014). "Conservation status of United States tiger beetles". Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews. 7 (2–4): 93–145. doi:10.1163/18749836-07021077 – via Academic Search Complete.
- ^ 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): 723–729. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..723D. doi:10.1111/syen.12440.
- ^ Kamoun, Sophien (December 1996). "Occurrence of the Threatened Cicindela senilis frosti Varas-Arangua in an Inland Salt Marsh in Riverside County, California (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 50 (4): 369–371. JSTOR 4009274 – via JSTOR.