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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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Beetle on composite, Saskatchewan - Lebia vittata
Copyright © 2012 Stephen_WV

Beetle on composite, Saskatchewan - Lebia vittata
Grasslands NP, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 25, 2012
The gloss and color make me think this is a flea beetle, but the pronotum doesn't seem right.

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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 6 November, 2012 - 10:31am

found one near Medicine Hat t
found one near Medicine Hat today in the company of flea beetles that looked very similar. That protonum made me look twice as well
… Mark Oxamitny, 5 August, 2020 - 12:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles.
… Stephen_WV, 6 November, 2012 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

haha
this is a ground beetle (Carabidae) actually, genus Lebia (prob. L. vittata). Some are parasitoids on chrysomelids and often look like their hosts.
… Blaine Mathison, 6 November, 2012 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

 
Yes!
Yes, now that is indeed what the pronotum seemed like, a Carabid one! Seemed silly to say so. Thank-you Blaine!
… Stephen_WV, 6 November, 2012 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

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