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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 pectita

Species Lebia pectita

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia pectita Colorful Foliage Ground Beetle - Lebia pectita Lebia vittata? - Lebia pectita Lebia vittata? - Lebia pectita Lebia pectita in Alabama - Lebia pectita
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)
No Taxon (vittata group)
Species pectita (Lebia pectita)
Explanation of Names
Lebia pectita Horn 1885
Identification
The pale head and black-tipped femora separate L. pectita from all eastern spp. except L. vittata; the non-furcate, black, sutural vitta and the incomplete basal ridge of the elytra of pectita distinguish these two(1)
Range
e. US to NM (NH-FL to KS-NM) - Map (2)(3)
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Lebia Latreille in America North of México (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
Madge R.B. 1967. Quaest. Entomol. 3: 139‒242.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 26 February, 2009 - 11:02am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 18 July, 2021 - 3:34pm

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