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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) » viridis group (Lebia viridis group) » Lebia rufopleura

Species Lebia rufopleura

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Lebia rufopleura Schaeffer - Lebia rufopleura Lebia rufopleura Schaeffer - Lebia rufopleura Lebia rufopleura Schaeffer - Lebia rufopleura
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 (viridis group)
Species rufopleura (Lebia rufopleura)
Explanation of Names
Lebia rufopleura Schaeffer 1910
the name refers to the pale epipleura(1)
Size
6.5-7 mm (Schaeffer 1910); elytra 4.1-4.5 mm(1)
Identification
the only member of the subgenus with metallic green/blue elytra and a pale pronotum and head found in s. TX(1)
Range
w., c. to s. TX - Map (1)(2)(3)
Remarks
Type locality: Brownsville, Cameron Co., Texas
Print References
Schaeffer C. (1910) Additions to the Carabidae of North America with notes on species already known. Bull. Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 1(17): 391-405. (Full text)
Internet References
Type Info - Smithsonian
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)

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