Lebia Latreille 1802

Kavanaugh, David H. & Rainio, Johanna, 2016, Twenty-six New Species of Predaceous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (7), pp. 201-268 : 255

Genus Lebia Latreille 1802

As currently conceived, this genus is a megadiverse taxon with hundreds of species arrayed in 16 subgenera ( Lorenz 2005) and with a worldwide distribution in tropical to temperate regions. Jeannel (1949) considered Lebia and Nematopeza Chaudoir (1870) as distinct genera, but the latter is now generally treated as a subgenus of the former ( Lorenz 2005).