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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Tiger Beetles (Cicindelinae) » Big-headed Tiger Beetles (Megacephalini) » Metallic Tiger Beetles (Tetracha) » Carolina Metallic Tiger Beetle (Tetracha carolina)
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9015927 Tetracha - Tetracha carolina
Copyright © 2013 Rob Curtis

9015927 Tetracha - Tetracha carolina
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
September 7, 1972
carolina mexicanum?
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 23 November, 2013 - 10:22am
Last updated 18 July, 2014 - 9:03am

Moved
Moved from Metallic Tiger Beetles.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 July, 2014 - 9:03am login or register to post comments

 
I had mexicanum as a subspeci
I had mexicanum as a subspecies of this.
… Rob Curtis, 18 July, 2014 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

 
That is possibly correct?
As far as I know T. carolina is the only species in the genus that occurs in New Mexico or Arizona, but as for subspecies, I'm not sure where the divisions between them are supposed to be. Any subspecies for this one aren't listed here on BugGuide yet. I would need to look it up and don't have proper resources handy at the moment. A quick check on-line shows repeated listings of the name mexicana as a synonym of T. carolina ssp. carolina. Perhaps somebody else will chime in before I get a chance to double-check.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 July, 2014 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

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