Lebia Latreille, 1802

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 816

Subgenus Lebia Latreille, 1802

Lebia Latreille, 1802: 85. Type species: Carabus haemorrhoidalis Fabricius, 1792 (= Buprestis marginatus Geoffroy, 1785) designated by Desmarest (1851: 76).

Metabola Chaudoir, 1871a: 160 [junior homonym of Metabola Mayer, 1867]. Type species: Metabola rufopyga Chaudoir, 1871 (= Lebia pulchella Dejean, 1826) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 166).

Aphelogenia Chaudoir, 1871b: 25. Type species: Carabus vittatus Fabricius, 1777 designated by Madge (1967: 166). Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 166).

Dianchomena Chaudoir, 1871b: 45. Type species: Lebia abdominalis Chaudoir, 1843 designated by Casey (1920: 239). Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 166). Etymology. From the Greek dis (twice, double) and anchomenos (strangled), possibly alluding to the constriction of the vertex (" caput basi valde strangulatum ") of the adult [feminine].

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 525 species (Lorenz 2005: 481-488) of which 38 (about 7 % of the world fauna) occur in North America.