Lebai viridis
Lebai viridis
Size: 5-7.2mm
Seasonality: March-October
Distribution; Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Guatemala, West Indies
Information: nocturnal and/or diurnal. Often seen on brightly coloured flowers during the day, and at porch lights, UV lights, and mercury vapour traps at night. Tend to prey upon small insects such as aphids, leaf beetle larvae, and gnats.
Description: body: elongate-quadrate, semi-slender. Dorsal colouration: glossy to semi-dull green or blue, head overall smooth, slight wrinkles over the eyes, eyes large; face long. Occiput constricted into neck. Antennae relatively short, iridescent green or blue, pubescence begins on the second antennomere following the pedicel. Pronotal disk glossy green or blue, semi-convex; strongly transverse, short. Hind angles obtuse, margins thin but upturned, lateral margins rounded, dorsal face riddled by shallow wrinkles. 7-8 shallow striae, elytral apex truncate, abdomen protrudes from under tip of elytra. Elytral region quadrate with rounded angles. Ventral colouration: black with greenish-blue patches along borders of the abdominal sternites. Body relatively flat.