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Species Amara aulica

Representative Images

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
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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