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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2012, Article ID 398180, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/398180 Research Article Splendid Hybrids: The Effects of a Tiger Beetle Hybrid Zone on Apparent Species Diversity Mathew L. Brust,1 W. Wyatt Hoback,2 and Stephen M. Spomer3 1 Department of Biology, Chadron State College, Chadron, NE 69337, USA 2 Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 905 W 25th Street, Kearney, NE 68849, USA 3 Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 103 Entomology Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0816, USA Correspondence should be addressed to W. Wyatt Hoback, hobackww@ Received 2 October 2011; Revised 11 January 2012; Accepted 11 January 2012 Academic Editor: Brian Forschler Copyright © 2012 Mathew L. Brust et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nonexpert citizen groups are being used to monitor species to track ecosystem changes; however, challenges remain for proper identification, especially among diverse groups such as beetles. Tiger beetles, Cicindela spp., have been used for biological diversity monitoring because of their diversity and the ease of recognition. The finding of an apparent hybrid zone among Cicindela denverensis Casey, Cicindela limbalis Klug, and Cicindela splendida Hentz in central Nebraska prompted a detailed study of the biogeography of this species group within Nebraska, a test of characteristics that could be used by citizen scientists, and limited breeding experiments. This study suggests that while C. denverensis appears to hybridize with both C. limbalis and C. splendida within the