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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Tiger Beetles (Cicindelinae) » Flashy Tiger Beetles (Cicindelini) » Temperate Tiger Beetles (Cicindela) » Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata)
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6-spotted tiger beetle - Cicindela sexguttata
Copyright © 2012 nathan pate

6-spotted tiger beetle - Cicindela sexguttata
Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, USA
March 30, 2012
Size: 18-22mm
Found dozens of these today prowling (them, not me) on a gravel path thru woods. A very few were distinctly blue, not green like this one, but also had 6 spots i believe. same species? younger?

Cicindela sexguttata, is it not?
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Contributed by nathan pate on 30 March, 2012 - 8:24pm
Last updated 31 March, 2012 - 1:26am

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Markings are somewhat variable; a common tiger beetle found in woodlands.
… Brad Barnd, 31 March, 2012 - 1:26am login or register to post comments

oh wait a sec
just realized all the other pics show tiger beetles very similar to this one, BUT they all have 2 addtnl spots, smaller, more toward the mid-line, and more posterior than the anterior-most pair of this specimen.
a different species?
… nathan pate, 30 March, 2012 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

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