Northeastern Tiger Beetles - Leonard, Jonathan G.

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Résumé :
With over 150 pen and ink drawings, range maps, keys to adults and larvae, and provides four pages of color photographs illustrating the twenty species of tiger beetles in New England and Eastern Canada, this comprehensive reference makes technical information readily accessible. It provides identifying 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. Using this guide researchers, students, and even amateur naturalists will have no trouble distinguishing between the many species of tiger beetles....

Biographie:
Preface -- The Authors -- Acknowledgments -- 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 Ins tar 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 Jormosa generosa -- Cicindela ancocisconensis -- Cicindela tranquebarlca tranquebarlca -- Cicindela purltana -- Cicindela birticollis birticollis -- Cicindela marginata -- Cicindela limbata labradorensis -- Cicindela rufiventrls beutzii -- DARK SPECIES WITH MACULATION PATTERN REDUCED -- Cicindela birticollis rbodensis -- Cicindela duodecimguttata -- Cicindela repanda novascotiae -- Cicindela rufiventrls rufiventrls -- Cicindela Jongilabrls longilabrls -- Cicindela punctulata punctulata -- BRONZED SPECIES WITH REDUCED MACULATIONS AND PROMINENT MIDDLE BANDS -- Cicindela limbalis -- Cicindela purpurea purpurea -- SPECIES WITH DISTINCTIVE MARGINAL BANDS -- Cicindela scutellarls lecontei -- Cicindela marginipennis -- SPECIES WITH PALE EL YTRA -- Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis -- Cicindela lepida -- STRAY SPECIES AND QUESTIONABLE RECORDS -- Tetracba carolina carolina -- Cicindela trifasciata ascendens -- Glossary -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index....