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Species Amara aulica

Ground Beetle 1730 - Amara aulica Ground Beetle 1730 - Amara aulica Ground Beetle 1730 - Amara aulica Amara aulica - male Harpalus - Amara aulica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae
Supertribe Pterostichitae
Tribe Zabrini (Seed-Eating Ground Beetles)
Genus Amara (Seed-Eating Ground Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Curtonotus)
Species aulica (Amara aulica)
Explanation of Names
Amara aulica (Panzer 1796)
Size
11.0-14.3 mm(1) (our largest member of the genus)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA and now widespread across se. Canada (NF-QC) & ne. US (ME-MA)(2)
Habitat
vacant lots, roadsides, pastures, meadows, gravel pits, usually on dry, sandy soils(1)
Season
autumn breeder(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: NS 1929(2)
Works Cited
1.Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by Peter W. Messer on 13 January, 2008 - 1:31pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 4 December, 2014 - 11:21am

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