Cicindela formosa
| Cicindela formosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Cicindelidae |
| Genus: | Cicindela |
| Species: | C. formosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Cicindela formosa Say, 1817
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Cicindela formosa, the big sand tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Cicindelidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3][4][5]
Cicindela Formosa overtime has had the ability to change the color patterns on its body which was found through genetic lineages. Although some say its traits come from genomic evolution, the change in its appearance mostly comes from environmental pressures such as predation and the transfer of heat, which shows that it is an effect of the interaction of the environment rather than traits from shared ancestry.[6]
Subspecies
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schultz, T. D. (1989). "Habitat Preferences and Seasonal Abundances of Eight Sympatric Species of Tiger Beetle, Genus Cicindela (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), in Bastrop State Park, Texas". The Southwestern Naturalist. 34 (4): 468–477. doi:10.2307/3671504. ISSN 0038-4909.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
External links
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