Lebia (Loxopeza), Chaudoir, 1871

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 812-813

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lebia (Loxopeza)
status

 

Subgenus Loxopeza Chaudoir, 1871

Loxopeza Chaudoir, 1871a: 117, 138. Type species: Lebia grandis Hentz, 1830 designated by Madge (1967: 153). Etymology (original). From Greek loxos (slanting, by extension oblique) and peza (foot), alluding to the oblique anterior edge of the male first three protarsomeres (" tarsi antici maris articulis tribus apice valde oblique truncatis ") [feminine].

Diversity.

Twenty-five species in the Nearctic (eight species) and Neotropical (18 species) Regions.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Lebia

Loc

Lebia (Loxopeza)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Loxopeza

Chaudoir 1871
1871
Loc

Lebia grandis

Hentz 1830
1830