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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) » fuscata group (Lebia fuscata group) » Lebia guttula

Species Lebia guttula

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Lebia guttula LeConte - Lebia guttula Lebia sp? - Lebia guttula Lebia guttula Lebia guttula Small Ground Beetle - Lebia guttula Lebia? - Lebia guttula Small Carabid on the moth sheet - Lebia guttula Ground Beetle - Lebia guttula
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 (fuscata group)
Species guttula (Lebia guttula)
Explanation of Names
Lebia guttula LeConte 1851
Identification
can be distinguished by elytral pattern from all our spp. except dark specimens of L. abdita, from which it can be distinguished by entirely dark abdomen and smoother frons(1)
Range
w.NA (s.BC‒CA to s.AB‒w.TX)(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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