Cicindela arenicola

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cicindelidae
Tribe: Cicindelini
Subtribe: Cicindelina
Genus: Cicindela
Species:
C. arenicola
Binomial name
Cicindela arenicola
Rumpp, 1967[1]

Cicindela arenicola is a species of tiger beetle in the genus Cicindela. It was first described in 1967.[2] Its common names include St. Anthony Dune tiger beetle and Idaho Dunes tiger beetle.[3][4]


St. Anthony Dune Tiger Beetle

This rare beetle species is only known from Idaho and Montana in the United States, where it lives in sand dune ecosystems.[3] The first specimen identified in 1967 is from the sand dunes of the Snake River Valley in southern Idaho.[1] It is most active during warm days in the spring and fall, and it retreats to burrows in the sand when conditions are very hot or cold. Adults hibernate during the winter and emerge from burrows in the spring to mate and lay eggs.[5] It is more closely related to Cicindela theatina in habitat, morphology, and ecology than any other Cicindela species.[1]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Rumpp, Norman L. (1967-01-01). "A new species of Cicindela from Idaho (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4th Series. 35: 129–140.
  2. ↑ "Cicindela arenicola Rumpp, 1967". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. 1 2 Cicindela arenicola. NatureServe. Accessed 1 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Duran, Daniel P.; Gough, Harlan M. (2020). "Validation of tiger beetles as distinct family (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), review and reclassification of tribal relationships". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4): 723–729. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..723D. doi:10.1111/syen.12440.
  5. ↑ Bauer, K. L. 1991. Observations on the developmental biology of Cicindela arenicola Rumpp (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Great Basin Naturalist Vol. 51, No. 3, Article 4.

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