Lebia cyanocephala
Lebia cyanocephala | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Subfamily: | Harpalinae |
Genus: | Lebia |
Species: | L. cyanocephala |
Binomial name | |
Lebia cyanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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 native to Volgograd, Russia, where they were first photographed in 2006 by Konstantin Makarov.[2]