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Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2010
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2010
It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin
I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capture of rare beetles.--Charles Darwin
The Creator, if He exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.--J. B. S. Haldane
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Ted C. MacRae is an agricultural research entomologist with "an inordinate fondness for beetles." Primary expertise includes taxonomy and host associations of wood-boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. I am currently serving as Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for the journal Cicindela and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Visit me also at these other sites:
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As a very amateur amateur, I’m going to guess Cicindela theatina, Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes Tiger beetle, and will probably be terribly wrong.
These are very good questions. Every morning one should ask these questions and then do their very best. I like to add: and what am I going to do about it? to my morning affirmations. That is a great beetle photo by the way. Keep up the good work,
Cicindela togana
Saline shorelines, salt marshes/flats; salty wet places 🙂
Um…other salty-liking creatures?
Oh, these guys! 🙂
Cicindela fulgida rumppii, exclusively in vegetated dry sand areas around the salt flats.
Cicindela (Cicindelidia) nigrocoerulea, mostly 10-20m from the water’s edge, a few also in roadside habitat.
Cicindela (Cicindelidia) punctulata chihuahuae, exclusively in roadside habitats.
Cicindela (Cicindelidia) willistoni estancia, mostly along the water’s edge.
Cylindera terricola cinctipennis, exclusively in dry grassy areas away from the water.
Ellipsoptera nevadica, exclusively along the water’s edge.
Habroscelimorpha circumpicta johnsoni, limited to roadside habitats and vegetated dry sand areas around the salt flats.
I guess it’s properly called Eutona togana? Most records I found list it as Cicindela.
I’m an amateur also, but I’ll give it a shot:
1. Cicindela togata, White-cloaked Tiger Beetle.
2. Salty and sandy places (vague enough?). I’m guessing Oklahoma for the photo?
3. C. circumpicta, C. nevadica
Great…I stop typing midway through my answer to watch the rest of LOST and TGIQ beats me to it!
I’ll agree with Aaron that TGIQ got to the right answer first. I’ll guess that this particular one was photographed on the road to nowhere.
I can’t believe nobody got the right answers. My name is Ted, I live in St. Louis, and I hang with other bug dudes like Chris, Rich, Kent…
Oh, you thought I meant the beetle…
🙂
Lots of points to award here:
The “official” answers:
Details forthcoming…
See, I had all these answers–both sets of answers in fact–but I decided to drink a beer instead of typing. One must have priorities!
yay, pity points!