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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) » American Tiger Beetles (Cicindelidia) » Black Sky Tiger Beetle (Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea) » Black Sky Tiger Beetle (Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea nigrocoerulea)
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Punctulata or nigrocoerula? - Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea - male - female
Copyright © 2013 Aaron Schusteff

Punctulata or nigrocoerula? - Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea - Male Female
San Pedro River crossing near Hereford, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
July 24, 2013
Lateral view...showing the "perhaps too densely setose for nigrocoerula" lateral face of the thorax on the male. Also, the labrums seems quite convexly projecting...which would tilt towards C. punctulata. Hmmm.

(My comment about comparative shape of the labrum in nigrocoerula and punctulata is based on studying Fig. 42b and 41d in Kippenhan (1994). For a more complete discussion about distinguishing these two species, see this post.)

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Punctulata or nigrocoerula? - Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea - male - female Punctulata or nigrocoerula? - Cicindelidia nigrocoerulea - male - female
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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 28 November, 2013 - 8:38pm
Last updated 6 December, 2013 - 4:22pm

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