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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 chalcea
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Ground Beetle - Amara chalcea - male
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Ground Beetle - Amara chalcea - Male
Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
October 24, 2008
Size: 6mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 24 October, 2008 - 10:50pm
Last updated 9 November, 2008 - 7:36pm

Thanks Peter
Moved from Amara.
… tom murray, 9 November, 2008 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

Amara chalcea (male)
based on my microscopic examination of this specimen. Study of its dissected aedeagus ruled out the sibling species Amara gibba (Leconte, 1848) that was recently resurrected by Hieke (2001). Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 9 November, 2008 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 25 October, 2008 - 8:43am login or register to post comments

Amara
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