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Collections and published records 
In his Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera, Broun (1880) published a description 
of Cicindela perhispida as his species number “9”. Broun stated that he was indebted 
to T.F. Cheeseman (then Botanist of the Auckland Museum) for a specimen which he 
found near Hokianga (which is on the northern west coast) and added “I found a few 
others on the loose white sand at Marsden Point, Whangarei Harbour” (which is on 
the northern east coast). This was the beginning of a confusion which has lasted ever 
since, 
Another species, Cicindela campbelli, was described by Broun (1886) as his 
number “1451” from three “terribly mutilated” specimens “caught at Waikato Heads” 
(which is on the west coast south of Auckland) by W.D. Campbell. 
W. Horn (1892) described a variety of Cicindela perhispida Broun (without 
naming it), from a specimen in the Vienna Museum collections. In his catalogue of 
Cicindelidae, E. Fleutiaux (1892) listed the New Zealand species of Cicinde/a including 
perhispida Broun and campbelli Broun. 
W. Horn (1893) suggested that Cicindela perhispida and C. campbelli could be 
varieties of one species, and he named his 1892 variety of perhispida as var. brouni. 
However, Horn (1896), having seen Broun specimens of C. campbelli in the C.A. 
Dohrn collection, synonymised his variety brouni with that species. 
J.J. Walker (1904) recorded Cicindela perhispida Broun from coastal sand-dunes 
west of “Woodhills”, on the west coast north of Auckland. This is Woodhill, south of 
the Kaipara Harbour, Some 5.6-6.4 km distant to the west is Muriwai Beach, at ca. 8.5 
- 10.7 km north of Muriwai, which Walker reached. F.W. Hutton (1904) listed 
Cicindela perhispida Broun and C. campbelli Broun in his Index Faunae Novae 
Zealandiae, as did G.Y, Hudson (1923), 
In the Genera Insectorum, W. Horn (1915) included the New Zealand species of 
Cicindelidae recording Cicindela perhispida Broun, 1880 and C. campbelli Broun, 
1886 with Horn’s own previous records of perhispida var. (1892) and var. brouni 
(1893, 1896) as synonyms of campbelli, There is also a figure, on a colour plate, named 
Cicindela perhispida but which clearly has the colour pattern of his later-named 
species C. brevilunata Horn, 1926. Inthe Coleopterorum Catalogus, W. Horn (1926a) 
listed Cicindela campbhelli Broun, 1980, with the same synonymy, and C. perhispida 
Broun, 1880. 
W. Horn (1926b) also described Cicindela brevilunata, with his above-mentioned 
figure name of Cicindela perhispida (Horn 1915) as asynonym, Unfortunately, two of 
the three recorded specimens were without locality and the third was a specimen, 
previously in the British Museum collection, labelled “Hokianga”. This area is on the 
northern west coast while the form described and figured (Horn 1915) is the east coast 
form, 
