Taxonomy
- Adephaga
- Carabidae
- Lebia
- Lebia
- Lebia cruxminor
Images
Source: John Walters
Source: Lech Borowiec
Description
Size: 5-7mm
Basic colour: Orange and black.
Pattern colour: Head black, pronotum orange-red, elytra yellow with black markings forming an approximate cross.
Pronotoum: Orange-red, almost unpunctured.
Leg colour: Pale with femoral apices and tarsi blackened.
Basic colour: Orange and black.
Pattern colour: Head black, pronotum orange-red, elytra yellow with black markings forming an approximate cross.
Pronotoum: Orange-red, almost unpunctured.
Leg colour: Pale with femoral apices and tarsi blackened.
Biology
Status: Scarce. Local with scattered recent records from Cornwall and Sussex in England and Fermanagh, Clare and Kerry in Ireland.
RDB Category: Endangered
Habitat: Grasslands, probably associated with Galeruca tanaceti.
Other notes: Elytra extemely wide and convex, sides rounded, widest near apex; intervals finely punctured.
RDB Category: Endangered
Habitat: Grasslands, probably associated with Galeruca tanaceti.
Other notes: Elytra extemely wide and convex, sides rounded, widest near apex; intervals finely punctured.
Articles
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(2010), A new Irish site for Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus) (Carabidae) The Coleopterist 19(1):31
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(2009), Lebia cruxminor Linnaeus (Carabidae) new to Dorset The Coleopterist 18(3):182
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(2009), Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus) (Carabidae) in Co. Roscommon The Coleopterist 18(3):204
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(2005), A new county record of Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus) (Carabidae) from Ireland The Coleopterist 14(2):82