Colorful Foliage Ground Beetles

Lebia

Field notes

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.

Children

Lebia 29 native
Loxopeza 6 native
Lebia lecontei presumed native
Lamprias
Chelonodema

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native colorful foliage ground beetles All

Native to the US, by observations.

Lebia rufopleura 6 observations