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Species Amara apricaria

Ground beetle from Britsh Columbia 10.07.13 - 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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