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Species Lebia viridipennis - Green-winged Lebia

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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 '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)
See Also
L. tricolor, a member of another subgenus
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.