Summary description from Wikipedia:

Cicindela purpurea in languages:

English

Purple Tiger Beetle

English

Cow Path Tiger Beetle

French

cicindèle purpurine

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Parent Taxon

• Cicindela

Sibling Taxa

• Cicindela albissima
• Cicindela altaica
• Cicindela ancocisconensis
• Cicindela arenicola
• Cicindela asiatica
• Cicindela bellissima
• Cicindela campestris
• Cicindela clypeata
• Cicindela coerulea
• Cicindela columbica
• Cicindela decemnotata
• Cicindela denikei
• Cicindela denverensis
• Cicindela depressula
• Cicindela desertorum
• Cicindela duodecimguttata
• Cicindela formosa
• Cicindela fulgida
• Cicindela gallica
• Cicindela gemmata
• Cicindela georgiensis
• Cicindela granulata
• Cicindela herbacea
• Cicindela hirticollis
• Cicindela hybrida
• Cicindela japana
• Cicindela javeti
• Cicindela lacteola
• Cicindela latesignata
• Cicindela lengi
• Cicindela lewisi
• Cicindela limbalis
• Cicindela limbata
• Cicindela longilabris
• Cicindela lusitanica
• Cicindela majalis
• Cicindela maritima
• Cicindela maroccana
• Cicindela monticola
• Cicindela nebraskana
• Cicindela nigrior
• Cicindela nordmanni
• Cicindela ohlone
• Cicindela oregona
• Cicindela parowana
• Cicindela patruela
• Cicindela pimeriana
• Cicindela plutonica
• Cicindela pugetana
• Cicindela pulchra
• Cicindela purpurea
• Cicindela repanda
• Cicindela resplendens
• Cicindela restricta
• Cicindela sachalinensis
• Cicindela sahlbergii
• Cicindela scutellaris
• Cicindela sexguttata
• Cicindela soluta
• Cicindela songorica
• Cicindela splendida
• Cicindela sylvatica
• Cicindela sylvicola
• Cicindela talychensis
• Cicindela tenuicincta
• Cicindela theatina
• Cicindela tranquebarica
• Cicindela transbaicalica
• Cicindela turkestanica
• Cicindela waynei

Child Taxa

• Cicindela purpurea audubonii
• Cicindela purpurea cimarrona
• Cicindela purpurea hatchi
• Cicindela purpurea lauta
• Cicindela purpurea purpurea

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