Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia fuscata

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… Ilona L., 21 October, 2008 - 1:21am

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… Ilona L., 20 May, 2007 - 11:21pm

Looks like one of the Lebia

that we have been struggling with. Different online sources have different images as we recall. Or at least there was some reason we were struggling with these. Images here

… john and jane balaban, 20 May, 2007 - 5:11pm

Thanks for the link. The bee

Thanks for the link. The beetle I photographed looks just like one of the other beetles in this genus. There sure is a lot of variation in the color for the genus.

… Ilona L., 20 May, 2007 - 11:25pm

L. fuscata

yours looks to be L. fuscata (keyed from ref (1), best reference I've found - head without deep puntures on frons (can't see on your image), dark pronotum with pale margins, elytra with pale apex uninterupted at suture, black subapical band with trailing edge usually wavy and thickening toward suture). also, see execellent series of Lebia images here .

two other L. fuscata currently sitting on genus page;

and

… Tim Moyer, 23 May, 2007 - 9:50pm

Lebia fuscata

Thanks for the info on the beetle. I'm going to post another Lebia which I at first thought was just a smaller version of the beetle on this page but I'm not sure that it isn't another species of Lebia.

… Ilona L., 24 May, 2007 - 2:39am

yikes!

are you sure about the size for this beetle? There isn't a 10mm Lebia (at least that has these colors). I'd expect L. fuscata to be 4-7mm, and most of the other similar yellow and black Lebia are about the same or smaller.

… Tim Moyer, 24 May, 2007 - 11:47am

Lebia size

I was impressed by the size of this beetle which I noticed in the undergrowth because it was easy to photograph It was definitely larger than the one

I photographed on May 21. It looks like I had better start carrying a ruler with me when I go out on these photography forays.

… Ilona L., 24 May, 2007 - 1:46pm