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

192 pages  ISBN 0849319153      £33.00

This 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 as well as range maps.

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

• Cicindela repanda repanda
• Cicindela formosa generosa
• Cicindela ancocisconensis
• Cicindela tranquebarica tranquebarica
• Cicindela puritana
• Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis
• Cicindela marginata
• Cicindela limbata labradorensis
• Cicindela rufiventris heutzii

• Cicindela hirticollis rhodensis
• Cicindela duodecimguttata
• Cicindela repanda novascotiae
• Cicindela rufiventris rufiventris
• Cicindela longilabris longilabris
• Cicindela punctulata punctulata

• Cicindela limbalis
• Cicindela purpurea purpurea

• Cicindela scutellaris lecontei
• Cicindela marginipennis

• Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis
• Cicindela lepida

• Tetracha carolina carolina
• Cicindela trifasciata ascendens

References and Suggested Reading

Index