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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) » subgenus Loxopeza (Lebia subgenus Loxopeza) » Lebia grandis

Species Lebia grandis

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia grandis Bombardier Beetle? - Lebia grandis grand Lebia - Lebia grandis WBC Brachinus - Lebia grandis Ground beetle - Lebia grandis Ground beetle - Lebia grandis Lebia grandis Hentz - Lebia grandis Beetle - Lebia grandis - female
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)
No Taxon (subgenus Loxopeza)
Species grandis (Lebia grandis)
Other Common Names
Flat Ground Beetle (genus Lebia), Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle (tribe)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Loxopeza grandis
Size
8-11 mm
Identification
A large Lebia with yellow head, pronotum, and blue/green elytra deeply striated. See Ciegler (1) for key details.
Range
Eastern North America
Season
Late spring, summer, fall. March-September, November (North Carolina). April-August, December (South Carolina). Adults emerge May-June (Maryland).
Food
Adults predatory on other insects, especially larval beetles.
Life Cycle
Adults are diurnal and nocturnal. Larvae parasitoids of such insects as Colorado Potato Beetles, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Adults overwinter. Two generations per year in southeastern United States.
See Also
Lebia atriventris--elytra weakly striated
Print References
Ciegler, description, p. 124, key, pp. 122-123 (1)
Dillon, p. 106, plate XI #5 (2)
Brimley, p. 124 (3)
Papp, p. 51 (4)
Arnett et al., p. 96 (5)
Internet References
CBIF
Cornell Univ.
Works Cited
1.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
By Janet Ciegler
2.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence
3.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
4.Introduction to North American Beetles
By Charles S. Papp
5.How to Know the Beetles
By Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 June, 2005 - 2:27pm
Last updated 29 July, 2006 - 8:01am

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