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Tiger beetle - Cicindela duodecimguttata

Tiger beetle - Cicindela duodecimguttata
Mount Pleasant, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
April 7, 2012
Size: 14mm
Found on soil in large area being developed- was once a soybean field. Several were seen along a drying drainage channel area. If these are C. punctalata - prior photos in Wisconsin are from June and August. March in Wisconsin was MUCH warmer than usual.

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Cicindela duodecimguttata
This one looks more like Cicindela duodecimguttata. The markings look acceptable to me for that species, and they look more robust compared to repanda. The most important detail is the shape of thorax from above. It is trapezoidal on duodecimguttata and more parallel-sided on repanda.

 
I'm not surprised
that C. duodecimguttata is being considered. We always do better diagnostically when beetle is under our scope and able to compare with other specimens.

Nancy, are you able to bring this specimen to the Wis Ento Soc meeting Apr 28? I would like to check out the real thing under a scope there. Thanks.

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Cicindela repanda in my opinion.
Photographic angles of tiger beetles often trick me. This one along with C. punctulata, C. sexguttata, and C. scutellaris lecontei are the most widespread tiger beetles in Wisconsin. See another recent find of a Wisconsin tiger beetle.

The middle elytral macule is broken leaving an isolated dot (rare in C. repanda). That break might suggest C. duodecimguttata, however, overall the elytral macules are too heavy to be that species in my opinion.

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