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Tiger beetles represent a disproportionate number of the invertebrates on USFWS and New England state lists of rare and endangered taxa--50% of Connecticut's cicindeline fauna were listed as of 1998. Efforts to improve our knowledge of Connecticut Cicindela species have resulted in disparate data-capture efforts in Connecticut. The data presented below represent a synopsis of previous efforts, databased museum-label data from numerous public and private collections, and from field surveys conducted during 1996-1999. The Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy through a grant to Derek S. Sikes from the H. Allen Mali Research Fund and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection supported this research. |
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Derek
S. Sikes
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 dss95002@uconnvm.uconn.edu
I welcome any comments or suggestions.
Note: I thank all those who have used this site and contributed comments over the past few years. I have made modifications to the site which I hope will make it easier to use. Seven of Connecticut's 14 species of tiger beetles are on the state list of protected species, I have removed detailed locality data from this website for the 5 of these 7 species that are extant in Connecticut.
Note: All items linked from this page
have been reviewed by faculty of the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
CT 06269 and by the Department of Science and Stewardship,
Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Pages, all text and data © The Nature Conservancy, 1996. Images © Piotr Naskrecki, 1996. Terms of Use: Permission to publish portions of the information, sounds, images, artwork or likenesses contained in this report/server is granted solely to persons affiliated with academic and non-profit organizations for scientific and scholarly purposes. Any such use resulting from the information contained herein must acknowledge the author, Derek Sikes and the University of Connecticut and the funding agency, The Nature Conservancy, as the source.
Distributional, ecological, taxonomic and other scientific reports should not assume veracity of the information contained in this report. Please await publication of this information in a peer-reviewed journal before considering this information final. Identifications of critical importance should be verified by direct inspection of the specimens by specialists whenever possible.
Non-academic or non-scientific use of all
or portions of the information, images, artwork, likenesses
is strictly prohibited. Persons wishing to use material for
such purposes must contact the author, Derek Sikes to
request permission to use the material in a non-academic
fashion.
Pages last modified: 5 May 1999; Pages first posted: 2 April 1997
