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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) » Lebia scapula

Species Lebia scapula

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
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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)
Species scapula (Lebia scapula)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The description of L. cymindoides Bates 1883 fits very well and the two may prove to be the same. If so the name cymindoides will have priority.(1)
Explanation of Names
Lebia scapula Horn 1885
Size
elytra 2.76‒3.52 mm(1)
Identification
the only species in sw.US with at least the apex and more or less the entire mesal half of each elytron dark(1)
Range
AZ‒w.TX; n. Mexico(2)
Remarks
the only member of scapula group in our fauna(2)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Lebia Latreille in America North of México (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
Madge R.B. 1967. Quaest. Entomol. 3: 139‒242.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

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