A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelidae

by Pearson, David L.; Knisley, C. Barry; Kazilek, Charles J.

• ISBN13: 9780195181562
• ISBN10: 0195181565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This guide, along with close-focusing binoculars, an insect net, and, at times, a willingness to crawl on elbows and knees with a camera is all the reader will need to identify any tiger beetle north of Mexico.

Table of Contents

1 The Magic of Tiger Beetles	3	(4)
2 How to Recognize a Tiger Beetle	7	(8)
3 Phylogeny and Taxonomy	15	(4)
4 Illustrated Keys to Adult Genera and Species	19	(24)
5 Identification of Tiger Beetle Larvae	43	(4)
6 Species Accounts	47	(130)
Giant Tiger Beetles, Genus Amblycheila	48	(4)
Night-stalking Tiger Beetles, Genus Omus	52	(5)
Big-headed Tiger Beetles, Genus Tetracha/Megacephala	57	(3)
Common Tiger Beetles, Genus Cicindela	60	(117)
Temperate Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Cicindela	61	(44)
Tribon Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Tribonia	105	(8)
American Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Cicindelidia	113	(25)
Habro Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Habroscelimorpha	138	(9)
Eunot Tiger Beetle, Subgenus Eunota	147	(1)
Coral Beach Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Microthylax	148	(1)
Opilid Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Opilidia	149	(1)
Little Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Brasiella	150	(2)
Rounded-thorax Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Cylindera	152	(7)
Dromo Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Dromochorus	159	(3)
Ellipsed-winged Tiger Beetles, Subgenus Ellipsoptera	162	(15)
7 Ecology and Behavior	177	(12)
8 Biogeography	189	(2)
9 Conservation	191	(8)
10 Observing and Studying Tiger Beetles	199	(10)
Selected Bibliography	209	(4)
Checklist of the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada	213	(8)
Index	221