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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 Amara (Amara subgenus Amara) » Common Sun Beetle (Amara aenea)

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Copyright © 2011 Richard Migneault

Ground beetle - Amara aenea

Edmundston, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada
September 11, 2011
Size: 7mm

This look like aenea..

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Ground beetle - Amara aenea

Ground beetle - Amara aenea

Ground beetle - Amara aenea

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Contributed by Richard Migneault on 15 November, 2011 - 11:31am
Last updated 4 December, 2014 - 6:03pm

Moved

Moved from subgenus Amara.

… v belov, 4 December, 2014 - 6:03pm

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Moved

Moved from Seed-Eating Ground Beetles.

… v belov, 4 December, 2014 - 5:19pm

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Amara species

There's not enough detail in these photographs to be able to distinguish identify this specimen. A key character is how many (one, two, or three) pre-apical setae/punctures there are on the elytron. Without being able to see this, there are too many possibilities to be able to determine which species this specimen is.

… Christopher Majka, 28 January, 2013 - 9:33am

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Amara

Can you tell whether the spur on the front tibiae is trifid or not? See

for an example. I can't decide from your image whether it is or not.

… Brad Barnd, 15 November, 2011 - 4:16pm

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Hi Brad, do you have enough d

Hi Brad, do you have enough details on this extra photo..

… Richard Migneault, 15 November, 2011 - 6:06pm

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Yes

It's not trifid (if it was, the number of species possibilities would have been very much reduced).

As it is, there are a number of species this could be, and I am not sure if it can be determined from photographs. (Seems to be about 25 species reported from NB).

… Brad Barnd, 15 November, 2011 - 6:21pm

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Thanks anyway for your work a

Thanks anyway for your work and your help!

… Richard Migneault, 15 November, 2011 - 7:01pm

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