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Tiger Beetle

Cicindela sp.

Description:

About 13mm in length. Head, nota and elytra metallic blue and unmarked. Elytra do not quite cover the tip of the abdomen. Legs and antenna black.

Habitat:

Dirt trail in a deciduous forest.

Notes:

Six-spotted Tiger Beetles are typical Green with white spots on the elytra. This one was a brilliant metallic blue. Spotted along Hackberry trail

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7 Comments

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 10 years ago

Thanks Antònio. This is the only blue Tiger Beetle I've ever seen.

Beautiful Keith,great blue collour,congrats and thanks for sharing

MelissaFerguson
MelissaFerguson 11 years ago

Beautiful colour-cool beetle!

LisaPowers
LisaPowers 11 years ago

It may be then...but check the Tiger Beetle site to be sure.

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 11 years ago

So cute...

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

That is the ID I got at BugGuide. The two you have linked are shown in western Nebraska. I will do some more research. Thank you for your input.

LisaPowers
LisaPowers 11 years ago

This is a tiger beetle, just not C. sexguttata. I suspect it is the second of these 2 links, but could be either depending on size.

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr...
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr...

KeithRoragen
Spotted by
KeithRoragen

Nebraska, USA

Spotted on Jun 9, 2012
Submitted on Jun 13, 2012

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