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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)
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what am I? - Lebia viridipennis
Copyright © 2022 Marcia Morris

what am I? - Lebia viridipennis
Greenbrier River Campground, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA
June 14, 2022
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Contributed by Marcia Morris on 16 June, 2022 - 8:30pm
Last updated 30 October, 2022 - 9:27am

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Marcia Morris, 30 October, 2022 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

Lebia viridipennis
Lebia viridipennis
… Connor E.J. Graham, 30 October, 2022 - 9:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 27 August, 2022 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

Looks like a carabid in the g
Looks like a carabid in the genus Lebia, not sure of species, though.
… Hexapoda, 21 June, 2022 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

 
looks right!
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… Marcia Morris, 21 June, 2022 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

Well, here I am commenting on
Well, here I am commenting on something I have no business commenting on...

I saw your beetle here in the ID request list and thought it looked cool, so I spent a few minutes browsing the Visual Guide to Families on the main page info page here for beetles (Coleoptera)

From there, I can see there are several superficially similar species to your guy under: Malachiini

It may or may not be in there, but it's not a bad place to start looking.
… the sego sago kid, 21 June, 2022 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

 
except for mouthparts
cool section, though. Thanks for commenting.
… Marcia Morris, 21 June, 2022 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

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