Critically Endangered
Cicindela albissima
Cicindela albissima
Cicindela albissima, commonly called the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle is a tiger beetle endemic to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in southern Utah, United States.
The beetle
It was originally described by Rumpp in 1962 as the subspecies Cicindela limbata albissima, but mitochondrial DNA, along with the species' morphological and geographical distinctiveness, have shown that it is a separate species.
Range and habitat
Cicindela albissima is endemic to twenty percent of the 3,500-acre (1,400 ha) Coral Pink Sand Dunes, that are within Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Kane County, Utah. Its occupied habitat is about 5,900 feet (1,800 m) long by 1,000 feet (300 m) wide. Cicindela albissima, commonly called the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle is a tiger beetle endemic to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in southern Utah, United States.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Cicindela albissima has been proposed to be listed as under the Endangered Species Act. In 2012, the population of C. Albissima was estimated to be 1786 individuals, up from 1116 in 2011. Since annual population surveys began in 1998, the population reached a peak of 2944 in 2002 and a minimum of 558 in 2005.
Rainfall is the primary factor controlling the population of C. Albissima, and drought is the most severe threat to the species. The conservation area encompassed 87 percent of the beetle's population in 2012, significantly more than in previous years, likely due to the establishment of the conservation area and increased protections within it.
Cicindela albissima is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Cicindela albissima, Wikidata item Q13467663. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
