''Lebia ornata'' is a species of
ground beetle in the genus
Lebia
''Lebia'' is a genus of predatory ground beetles. Common names include colorful foliage ground beetles and flat ground beetles. They are found worldwide and there over 700 species in 17 subgenera.
Description
Small or medium-sized beetles, often ...
("colorful foliage ground beetles"), in the family
Carabidae ("ground beetles").
It was described by American
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
Thomas Say in 1823.
[
It is found in a broad range across eastern North America, from Texas to South Dakota, east Nova Scotia, and south to Florida.][Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ''ZooKeys, issue 245'', 1-1722.]
References
Further reading
* Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) ''American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
* Bousquet, Yves, and André Larochelle (1993). "Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America North of Mexico". ''Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, no. 167'', 397.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Ross H. Arnett. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Lebia ornata''
ornata
Beetles described in 1823
Taxa named by Thomas Say
Beetles of North America
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