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Species Amara otiosa

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 (impuncticollis group)

Species otiosa (Amara otiosa)

Explanation of Names

Amara otiosa Casey 1918

Size

6.5-9.0 mm(1)

Range

NF–NC to so.MB–ne.CO(2)

Habitat

fields, gravel/sand pits, meadows, roadsides, forest edges/clearings, usually on rather dry sandy soils with grasses(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.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

Contributed by v belov on 4 December, 2014 - 4:13pm
Last updated 23 January, 2015 - 6:24am

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