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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) » Green-winged Lebia (Lebia viridipennis)

Species Lebia viridipennis - Green-winged Lebia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · 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 viridipennis (Green-winged Lebia)
Explanation of Names
Lebia viridipennis Dejean 1826
viridipennis (L) 'green-winged'
Size
5-6 mm
Range
e NA (QC-FL to SD-TX)(1)
Habitat
low vegetation and on flowers of herbaceous plants
Remarks
the only member of viridipennis group in our fauna(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 19 June, 2005 - 5:24pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 September, 2016 - 10:43am

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