Species: Cicindela nebraskana

Prairie Long-lipped Tiger Beetle
Species

    Adults of C. NEBRASKANA are distinguished from C. LONGILABRIS adults by the relatively smooth elytral surface with puntations occurring in discrete fashion, with smooth elytral surface with punctations occurring in discrete fashion, with smooth fields between, normally black abdomen varying to metallic purple or blue and green in a small percentage of specimens, absence of humeral and apical lunules, and, in most specimens, absence of middle band, black dorsal coloration in the majority of specimens, and a labrum which is tan in color 44.8%, intermediate colored or mottled in 30.6% and black in 24.6% of females, and light in 82.6%, intermediaste colored or mottled in 15.6%, and black in 1.8% of male specimens. Formal descriptions of C. NEBRASKANA are found in LeConte (1861) under the name C. MONTANA, and in Leng (1902), Casey (1909), and Leffler (1979).

    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Mandibulata
    Class

    Insecta

    Order

    Coleoptera

    Family

    Cicindelidae

    Genus

    Cicindela

    Classification
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Beetles - Tiger Beetles
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Coleoptera - Cicindelidae - Cicindela - .

    Adults of C. NEBRASKANA are distinguished from C. LONGILABRIS adults by the relatively smooth elytral surface with puntations occurring in discrete fashion, with smooth elytral surface with punctations occurring in discrete fashion, with smooth fields between, normally black abdomen varying to metallic purple or blue and green in a small percentage of specimens, absence of humeral and apical lunules, and, in most specimens, absence of middle band, black dorsal coloration in the majority of specimens, and a labrum which is tan in color 44.8%, intermediate colored or mottled in 30.6% and black in 24.6% of females, and light in 82.6%, intermediaste colored or mottled in 15.6%, and black in 1.8% of male specimens. Formal descriptions of C. NEBRASKANA are found in LeConte (1861) under the name C. MONTANA, and in Leng (1902), Casey (1909), and Leffler (1979).

    Short General Description
    Tiger Beetle (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).
    Migration
    false - false - false
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G4
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    2008-06-03
    Global Status Last Changed
    1997-09-01
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    FG - 20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles) - FG - Primarily a species of the western prairies and the Pacific Northwest. Occurs in southern Canada and Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota (Spanton, 1988; Carter, 1989; Wallis, 1961).
    Global Range Code
    FG
    Global Range Description
    20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles)
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