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subgenus Amara

Amara sp. cupreolata group, A. tenax? - Amara

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 Amara

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated here following(1) in more narrow sense than in(2)

Numbers

~30 spp. (incl. 6 adventive) in our area, ~90 total(1)

Range

mostly holarctic (incl. all of NA) with some representation in more southern regions, more diverse in Asia(1)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

2.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by v belov on 15 June, 2010 - 4:38am
Last updated 4 December, 2014 - 3:16pm

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