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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)
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Metallic dark blue-green Ground Beetle with orange-brown extremities - Amara
Copyright © 2010 Emile

Metallic dark blue-green Ground Beetle with orange-brown extremities - Amara
Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 26, 2010
Size: 12 mm
Found this stunningly pretty beetle running on a grassy trail.

The metallic greenish color doesn't really show in the photo, and not at all in the second photo.

Genus Amara perhaps ?

I can add more material if certain details are not visible on the two photos.

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Contributed by Emile on 29 October, 2010 - 8:09pm
Last updated 31 December, 2023 - 6:13pm

Moved
Moved from Amara quenseli.
… Connor E.J. Graham, 31 December, 2023 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the correction, Connor.
I presume it is not Amara quenseli ?
Any guess as to which taxon/taxa it might belong ?
… Emile, 31 December, 2023 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Seed-Eating Ground Beetles.
… v belov, 4 December, 2014 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Seed-Eating Ground Beetles.
… Emile, 21 February, 2011 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Harpalinae.
… Emile, 21 February, 2011 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 6 November, 2010 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

if Amara, then looks like a Percosia
[must check if this subgen is present in this hemisphere]
… v belov, 30 October, 2010 - 12:39am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks =V= !
BugGuide has an Amara subgenus Percosia species for North America, but there are no official records for subgenus Percosia for California.
Perhaps it is not Amara then ...
… Emile, 30 October, 2010 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

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