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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 Xenocelia (Amara subgenus Xenocelia) » Amara rectangula
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Carabid - Amara rectangula - female
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Carabid - Amara rectangula - Female
Eagar, Apache County, Arizona, USA
June 22, 2008
Size: 8 mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 4 July, 2008 - 3:06pm
Last updated 25 March, 2018 - 9:02am

Moved
Moved from Seed-Eating Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 25 March, 2018 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

Amara rectangula ciudadensis (Bates, 1891)
Amara rectangula ciudadensis (Bates, 1891) upon further review of this female specimen. See more.
… Peter W. Messer, 25 March, 2018 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 28 July, 2008 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

Amara sp.
Tom, I am tentatively assigning two such specimens from your same collection event to my morphotype "Amara sp. B of AZ". I am not aware of any recently published taxonomic key that adequately separates the Amara species of southwestern USA. However, all known southwestern Amara species are conveniently listed in a catalogue by Bousquet & Larochelle (1993). That reference provides the starting point to search the literature (obscure & scattered) for the original species descriptions. I'm afraid that such a project will have to wait its turn.
… Peter W. Messer, 28 July, 2008 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

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