Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Genus Lebia - Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles

Lebia tricolor Lebia viridis Lebia of sorts? - Lebia Lebia, or thereabouts? - Lebia analis Beetle - Lebia cyanipennis ref photo for peter Messer - Lebia subdola Lebia viridipennis? - Lebia tricolor Lebia abdita? - Lebia abdita
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)
Other Common Names
Flat Ground Beetles
Explanation of Names
Lebia Latreille 1802
'shallow, thin'
Numbers
~50 spp. in 5 subgenera in our area, ~800 spp. in 18 subgenera worldwide(1)(2)(BG data) • our fauna:
subg. Chelonodema: 1 sp.
subg. Loxopeza: 8 spp.
subg. Polycheloma: 1 sp.
subg. Lamprias: 1 sp.
subg. Lebia: 38 spp. (of which 4 not yet in the guide)
Size
2.5‒14 mm(3)
Identification
Medium-sized/small, often vividly colored carabids with wide, flattened elytra
Revision of NA fauna in (3)
Adults of 14 spp. shown in (4)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA (north to YT & n.QC)(5)
Habitat
Found on foliage and on ground
Season
Typically late spring to mid-summer + fall; adults overwinter; two generations per year in south
Food
Predatory on small insects; some parasitize leaf beetle larvae
Life Cycle
In summer, adults often active on foliage during the day