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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Seed-Eating Ground Beetles (Zabrini) » Seed-Eating Ground Beetles (Amara) » subgenus Amara (Amara subgenus Amara) » cupreolata group (Amara cupreolata group) » Amara crassispina

Species Amara crassispina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Amara sp.? - Amara crassispina Amara ? - Amara crassispina - female Amara crassispina - male Amara crassispina - male Amara crassispina - male Amara crassispina - male 20181116 06 - Amara crassispina 20181219 - Amara crassispina
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 Amara)
No Taxon (cupreolata group)
Species crassispina (Amara crassispina)
Explanation of Names
Amara crassispina LeConte 1855
crassispina = 'thick-spined'
Size
7.2-8.8 mm(1)
Identification
clues separating it from sibling species:
pronotal outline
stout apical spur at each protibia (note that the figure of this spur in Ciegler (2) is incorrectly drawn)
Range
ME-FL to MT-so.CO-so.TX(3)
Habitat
open places(1)
Works Cited
1.Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.
3.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by tom murray on 9 November, 2008 - 8:18pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 8 December, 2014 - 11:35am

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