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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) » Festive Tiger Beetle (Cicindela scutellaris) » Unicolored Tiger Beetle (Cicindela scutellaris unicolor)
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Cicindela scutellaris
Copyright © 2009 Will Chatfield-Taylor

Cicindela scutellaris
Hawk's Bluff Trail, Savanna SP, Florida, USA
January 3, 2009
Size: 1cm
Pretty sure this isn't Cicindela punctulata, I think it's C. nigrior, any guesses?
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Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 4 January, 2009 - 9:40am
Last updated 14 January, 2009 - 8:03pm

Why not...
C. scutellaris unicolor?
… Skip Blanchard, 4 January, 2009 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

 
Yeah, it looks like a closer
Yeah, it looks like a closer match! Thanks Skip. My guess as just on species in the guide, I must have missed this subspecies using browse. Any good tiger beetle books out there?? Thanks again

Will
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 4 January, 2009 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

 
I recently moved to Florida
and I find the local emphasis of this one useful:
Choate, P.M., Jr. 2003. Tiger Beetles: A field Guide and Identification Manual for Florida and Eastern U.S. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
… Skip Blanchard, 4 January, 2009 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

 
a book i have [but never use]...
is here
… v belov, 4 January, 2009 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

 
so you could give it to me?
so you could give it to me?
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 19 November, 2009 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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