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PROTECTIVE COLORATION IN THE GENUS CICINDELA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. H. T. Townsend
C. H. T. Townsend
Affiliation:
Constantine, Mich.
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In the summer of 1884, while collecting the green tiger-beetles in the woods, it struck me very forcibly how the Cicindelæ that inhabit such places—sexguttata Fab. here, campestris Linn. in England, others elsewhere—are for the most part of a beautiful green, so as to assimilate in color with the surrounding vegetation and herbage among which they may alight; while those that frequent the bare ground, banks, sand hills, sandy stretches, beaches, bars—vulgaris Say, repanda Dej., maritima Dej., and many others—are of the colors easily assimilative with those that surround them on the flats and stretches where they are found.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , March 1886 , pp. 46 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1886

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References

* Rye, British Beetles, p. 47–48.

* Schaupp, Synopsis of North America Cicindelide, Pl. III., figs. 85 and 86. (From Bull. Bkl. Ent. Soc., vol, VI.)