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Species Amara alpina

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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 alpina (Amara alpina)
Explanation of Names
Amara alpina (Paykull 1790)
Size
7.3-11.5 mm(1)
Range
Holarctic: n. NA (NF-AK to n.NM along the Rocky Mts.; isolated on Shickshock Mts. in Gaspe Peninsula and some mts in New England) & N. Eurasia (Britain to Pacific Coast); ranges farther north in NA than any other carabid(2)
Habitat
moraines, vacant lots, meadows, usually on dry, sandy soils(1)
Season
autumn breeder(1)