Highlands Tiger Beetle

Cicindela highlandensis · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Carabidae

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Highlands Tiger Beetle
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The Highlands Tiger Beetle is a small, mostly black beetle about 10.5 to 12 mm long. It lives in sandy scrub and sandhill habitats with evergreen oaks and longleaf pines in central Florida.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is primarily black in color.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Adults measure between 10.5 and 12 millimetres in length.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 2 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida, Alabama.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Highlands Tiger Beetle photo 2
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Highlands Tiger Beetle photo 3
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Highlands Tiger Beetle photo 4
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY
Highlands Tiger Beetle photo 5
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY

Same family (Carabidae)

Six-spotted Tiger BeetleSix-spotted Tiger BeetleCicindela sexguttataHarmlessBronze Ground BeetleBronze Ground BeetleCarabus nemoralisGreen Tiger BeetleGreen Tiger BeetleCicindela campestrisBig-headed Ground BeetleBig-headed Ground BeetleScarites subterraneusStrawberry Seed BeetleStrawberry Seed BeetleHarpalus rufipesDamages trees, gardens or cropsBronzed Tiger BeetleBronzed Tiger BeetleCicindela repanda

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicindela_highlandensis

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Text written 2026-10-27 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-27.

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