Lebia cyanocephala

Lebia cyanocephala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Harpalinae
Genus: Lebia
Species: L. cyanocephala
Binomial name
Lebia cyanocephala

Lebia cyanocephala, sometimes called the blue plunderer,[1] is a ground beetle from a subfamily of Harpalinae.

Description

Adult beetles are 7.5 millimetres (0.30 in) long. They are blue with orangy-blackish legs and antennae. The beetle's rear is yellow.

Distribution

The species are found in Volgograd, Russia (where it was first photographed by Konstantin Makarov in 2006), Kazakhstan[2] and the United Kingdom.[3]


References

  1. "Lebia cyanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)". Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  2. "Lebia (Lamprias) cyanocephala". Zin.ru. Retrieved 20 May 2018.


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