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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Lebiini » Lebiina » Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles (Lebia) » subgenus Lebia (Lebia subgenus Lebia) » viridis group (Lebia viridis group) » Lebia viridis

Species Lebia viridis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Harpalinae

Supertribe Harpalitae

Tribe Lebiini

Subtribe Lebiina

Genus Lebia (Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles)

No Taxon (subgenus Lebia)

No Taxon (viridis group)

Species viridis (Lebia viridis)

Explanation of Names

Lebia viridis Say 1823

viridis = 'green'

Size

5-7 mm(1)

Range

transcontinental, Canada to Guatemala, W. Indies; ranges farther north than any other Lebia (to NT-YT)(2)

Season

Mostly diurnal; adults active late spring and summer on flowers and vegetation.(3)

Remarks

comes to lights; very common

See Also

Works Cited

1.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

2.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

3.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Cotinis on 19 June, 2005 - 6:36am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 14 December, 2020 - 10:08am

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