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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 cyanipennis

Species Lebia cyanipennis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
small Carabid of some kind ? - Lebia cyanipennis Small ground beetle - Lebia cyanipennis Small ground beetle - Lebia cyanipennis Alder Leaf Beetle - Lebia cyanipennis Lebia cyanipennis Dejean - Lebia cyanipennis Ground Beetle - Lebia cyanipennis Ground Beetle - Lebia cyanipennis Ground Beetle - Lebia cyanipennis
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 cyanipennis (Lebia cyanipennis)
Explanation of Names
Lebia cyanipennis Dejean 1831
Identification
two color forms: a dark form with the prothorax dark like the frons, and a light form with prothorax pale (intermediate specimens occur). In most specimens from SK-AB-MT which always seem to be the pale form, the frons is reddish brown (not the usual black)(1)
Range
w. NA (SK-BC to NM-CA)(1)
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.

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