Elevation of Cicindela nigrior to species rank
- Cicindela nigrior Schaupp (1884) has a complex taxonomic history as a subspecies, variety, and aberration of the morphologically plastic tiger beetle C. scutellaris. Schaupp gave the varietal name nigrior to what he apparently thought was a melanistic form of Cicindela scutellaris unicolor Dejean. Leng (1902) listed both nigrior and unicolor as varieties of scutellaris Say. However, Horn (1905) llsted nigrior and unicolor as aberrations of obscura Say (=scutellaris). Later he listed nigrior as a variety of scutellaris unicolor (Horn 1916). The Leng catalog (1920) shows both nigrior and unicolor as subspecies of scutellaris, while Vaurie (1950) and Boyd et al. (1982) placed nigrior as a synonym of unicolor. In this paper we raise the name "nigrior” to species level and present morphological, behavioral, and ecological data to Justify species status.
| Author: | Kenneth W. Vick, S. J. Roman |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156011 |
| Parent Title (English): | Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics |
| Publisher: | Center for Systematic Entomology |
| Place of publication: | Gainesville, Fla. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/06/29 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1985 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/06/29 |
| Volume: | 01 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 2 |
| First Page: | 27 |
| Last Page: | 28 |
| Source: | Gainesville, Fla. : Flora & Fauna Publ.: Insecta Mundi 01:1, S. 27-28 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 229269117 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Insecta Mundi / Insecta Mundi, Volume 1 (1985/86) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-332792 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
