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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 scalpta
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Lebia scalpta Bates - Lebia scalpta
Copyright © 2010 Mike Quinn

Lebia scalpta Bates - Lebia scalpta
Pine Canyon Camp Area no. 4, 4,700 ft., Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA
October 1, 2005
Det. R. Davidson

coll'ed by Raber & Riley (57), at UV light

spmn in the TAMUIC, X0815599
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 4 November, 2010 - 9:03pm
Last updated 17 March, 2022 - 1:50pm

shown in BCA
here

Moved from Lebia scapula.
… v belov, 4 November, 2010 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

Lebia scalpta Bates, 1883
is what you intended I believe.
… Peter W. Messer, 4 November, 2010 - 11:01pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by T.L. Erwin: L. scalpta Bates
his comment: "Bob Davidson mixed up the species epithets and you can see why!"
[pretty obvious indeed: the names are all but anagrammatic. there are even more confusing examples, like fracta and farcta within the same genus, etc. =v=]
… v belov, 5 November, 2010 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

 
Another "anagrammatic" mixup
that remarkably has persisted in the recent literature until clarification in the revised American Beetles vol 1 is Selenophorus/Athrostictus punctatulus vs Selenophorus punctulatus - two distinct species.
… Peter W. Messer, 5 November, 2010 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

 
too bad i can't recall it now...
recently i ran into two genera with, like, 12-letter-long names differing by a single vowel buried in the middle...
… v belov, 5 November, 2010 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

 
found it... 12 letters, like i said
Pachyonychis vs Pachyonychus in the Alticini; both monotypic.
Somewhat refreshing is the fact that Pachyonychus paradoxus Melsh. and Pachyonychis paradoxus Clark are religiously sympatric, except for the former is treated, appropriately, on p. 666, while the latter, on the preceding page(1)
… v belov, 5 November, 2010 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks for catching this, Peter
scapula is a Horn's sp.; this one's head does look scalped
… v belov, 4 November, 2010 - 11:09pm login or register to post comments

looks nothing like the rest on this page
no way it's conspecific, so maybe the rest are misplaced... by yours truly, although the epithet scapula (shoulder blade) better describes those pale-headed ones :(
on the other hand, there is a pic that looks to me similar to this one [head, thorax], given elytral pattern variation:
… v belov, 4 November, 2010 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

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