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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Lebiini » Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles (Lebia)

Genus Lebia - Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia grandis Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia fuscata foliage ground beetle - Lebia ornata Lebia - Lebia atriventris Lebia - Lebia ornata Lebia - Lebia viridis Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia ornata Beautiful little beetle - Lebia vittata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae
Tribe Lebiini
Genus Lebia (Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles)
Other Common Names
Flat Ground Beetles
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Latreille, 1802. Perhaps from Latin lebes -etis, a bronze pan, basin. The colorful,wide, elytra resemble a basin? (Latin dictionary).
From the Getty Museum, lebes: A large vessel used for mixing wine with water, the way that the Greeks normally drank their wine. It was also used to serve wine at the table.
Blatchley (1) says name is Greek, meaning "shallow or thin".
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 48 species.
Size
3-10 mm
Identification
Medium-sized or small ground beetles, with wide, flattened elytra.
Range
Much of North America
Habitat
Found on foliage and on ground.
Season
Typically late spring to mid-summer, and in fall. (Adults overwinter.) Two generations per year in south.
Food
Predatory on small insects.
Life Cycle
In summer, adults often active on foliage during the day--unusual for ground beetles. Some larvae parasiting on leaf beetle larvae.
See Also
Cymindis, Nemotarsus, genera in the same tribe.
Print References
Ciegler pp. 122-123 (2). Note errata, including part of key for this genus.
Dillon p. 106, plate XI (3)
Brimley p. 124 (4)
Papp p. 51, figs. 142-145 (5)
Arnett et al. p. 96, fig. 249--L. atrivetnris (6)
White, p. 92, fig. 30, plate 1--L. furcata (7)
Sikes, pp. 74-75 (8)
Internet References
Ground Beetles of Canada images of 14 Lebia species
Cornell Univ.--biological control
Insects of Cedar Creek images of 8 Lebia species
Beetles of Florida--lists a number of species, gives general range, synonyms.
Works Cited
1.An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana.
By Blatchley, W. S.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
By Janet Ciegler
3.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence
4.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
5.Introduction to North American Beetles
By Charles S. Papp
6.How to Know the Beetles
By Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques
7.Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
By Richard E. White
8.The Beetle Fauna of Rhode Island, an Annotated Checklist
By Derek Sikes
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 8 March, 2005 - 2:45am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 12 April, 2009 - 9:38pm

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