Abstract
The Florida Scrub Tiger Beetle Cicindela scabrosa Schaupp, a species precinctive to Florida, has not previously been recorded from Hardee County, Florida. Cicindela scabrosa is known from Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Dade, Highlands, Indian River, Levy, Orange, Polk, Putman, St. Johns, Taylor, and Volusia counties (Peck & Thomas, 1998). Cicindela scabrosa, once considered a variety of Cicindela abdominalis Fabricius, was raised to species rank by Choate (1984). The 2 species are generally similar in appearance, but may be separated (Choate 1984) by the presence in C. scabrosa of white apical lunule markings with small medial white marks and heavily punctured elytra, flattened white hairs on the underside of the abdomen and numerous conspicuous white hairs on sides of the pronotum (Fig. 1). Cicindela scabrosa was first recorded in
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