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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 Bradytus (Amara subgenus Bradytus) » fulva group (Amara fulva group) » Amara apricaria

Species Amara apricaria

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Works Cited
larger Carabid #2 - Amara apricaria Carabid - Amara apricaria Amara apricaria Harpalini? - Amara apricaria Carabidae - Amara apricaria - female Carabid 2 - Amara apricaria Ground Beetle - Amara apricaria Tribe Harpalini ? - Amara apricaria
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 Bradytus)
No Taxon (fulva group)
Species apricaria (Amara apricaria)
Explanation of Names
Amara apricaria (Paykull 1790)
Size
6.5-9.0 mm(1)
Range
native to the Palaearctic; adventive but very widespread in NA (NF-AK south to VA-KS-CO-n.CA)(2)
Habitat
fields, gardens, parks, sand/gravel pits, moraines, meadows, roadsides, forest clearings, usually on more or less dry sandy soils(1)
Season
autumn breeder(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: QC before 1865(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 Tim Loh on 24 October, 2009 - 1:02am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 4 December, 2014 - 11:51am

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