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Species Lebia tuckeri

Orange and blue Carabidae - Lebia tuckeri

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 tuckeri (Lebia tuckeri)

Explanation of Names

Lebia tuckeri (Casey 1920)

Identification

very similar to rufopleura; among Lebia s.str. spp. occurring in sw. US from w. TX to so. CA only tuckeri and arizonica have metallic green elytra and a pale head and pronotum: in tuckeri the metepisternum is usually pale, in arizonica it is dark(1)

Range

w. TX to so. CA(1)

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.

Contributed by v belov on 31 October, 2010 - 12:42pm
Last updated 11 January, 2012 - 4:16pm

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