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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) » vittata group (Lebia vittata group) » Lebia vittata
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Ground beetle? - Lebia vittata
Copyright © 2008 Dorothy E. Pugh

Ground beetle? - Lebia vittata
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
September 7, 2008
Size: 5 mm long
This beetle hid among bunches of small white flowers on a bush near a power line cut.
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 8 September, 2008 - 3:56pm
Last updated 3 April, 2009 - 8:21am

Probably
Lebia vittata. I have found it in Indiana.
… Skip Blanchard, 8 September, 2008 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
It looks like a good fit!
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 8 September, 2008 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

Pretty.
Lovely species of "foliage ground beetle" in the genus Lebia.
… Eric R. Eaton, 8 September, 2008 - 4:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
Such a strange type of ground beetle: it never goes on the ground!
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 8 September, 2008 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

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