Northeastern Tiger Beetles: A Field Guide to Tiger Beetles of New England and Eastern Canada

Published:
November 09, 1998 by CRC Press - 192 Pages
Author(s):
Jonathan G. Leonard, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA; Ross Taylor Bell, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA

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ISBN 9780849319150
Cat# 1915
 

Features

  • Includes over 150 pen and ink drawings, range maps, and keys to adults and larvae
  • Provides four pages of color photographs illustrating the twenty species of tiger beetles in New England and Eastern Canada
  • Offers the most-up-to-date range maps, including many never-before published localities

    • Summary

    Northeastern Tiger Beetles: A Field Guide to Tiger Beetles of New England and Eastern Canada is the first book to draw together information about adult and larvae of tiger beetles of New England and Eastern Canada. Details are provided about key characteristics of adults and larvae; habitat; range; and life history information of the various species, including notes on conservation status of rare or endangered species.

    Table of Contents

    Checklist of Species and Subspecies
    Introduction
    How to Recognize Tiger Beetles
    What is a Species?
    Tiger Beetle Ecology
    How to Recognize the Different Species
    Key to Adult Tiger Beetles
    Key to Third Instar Larvae
    Rearing Tiger Beetles
    Conservation
    Green Species
    Cicindela sexguttata
    Cicindela patruela patruela
    Cicindela scutellaris rugifrons
    Dark Species with Complete White Maculations
    Cicindela repanda repanda
    Cicindela formosa generosa
    Cicindela ancocisconensis
    Cicindela tranquebarica tranquebarica
    Cicindela puritana
    Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis
    Cicindela marginata
    Cicindela limbata labradorensis
    Cicindela rufiventris heutzii
    Dark Species with Maculation Pattern Reduced
    Cicindela hirticollis rhodensis
    Cicindela duodecimguttata
    Cicindela repanda novascotiae
    Cicindela rufiventris rufiventris
    Cicindela longilabris longilabris
    Cicindela punctulata punctulata
    Bronzed Species with Reduced Maculations and Prominent Middle Bands
    Cicindela limbalis
    Cicindela purpurea purpurea
    Species with Distinctive Marginal Bands
    Cicindela scutellaris lecontei
    Cicindela marginipennis
    Species with Pale Elytra
    Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis
    Cicindela lepida
    Stray Species and Questionable Records
    Tetracha carolina carolina
    Cicindela trifasciata ascendens
    Glossary
    References and Suggested Reading
    Index

    Editorial Reviews

    "The authors have done an excellent job of making technical information readily accessible to the reader…a glossary and suggestions for further reading enhance the utility of this book."
    -R.E. Lee,Jr. in Choice, June 1999
    "Finally, a guide to the twenty species of tiger beetles of New England and Eastern Canada. Range maps very helpful for researchers."
    -Northeastern Naturalist

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