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Amara laevipennis
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Copyright © 2014
Jim Moore
Seed-Eating Ground Beetle? -
Amara laevipennis
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
May 11, 2013
Size: Body length 7mm
Perhaps one of the Amara species? See here:
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My thanks for confirmation or otherwise!
GrBet 065 - Sent to Peter W. Messer
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Contributed by
Jim Moore
on 19 January, 2014 - 3:44pm
Last updated 26 October, 2018 - 10:31pm
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Jim Moore
, 26 October, 2018 - 10:31pm
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Amara laevipennis
is my tentative physical determination of this male specimen reposited @ PWMC. Thanks Jim. Conspecific to this one are your eight other specimens: 039, 048, 148, 018, 069, 070, 093, 114. The first three are males. Western species of subgenus
Amarocelia
are very difficult to distinguish externally. I will come back to this page at a later date after I study their genitalia. Curiously, a couple of the members like
A. erratica
and
A. laevipennis
will have some individuals with "wavy" elytral intervals, others with evenly flat intervals like this one.
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Peter W. Messer
, 23 October, 2018 - 4:24pm
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Thank you V!
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Jim Moore
, 19 January, 2014 - 9:23pm
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Amara, sure
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v belov
, 19 January, 2014 - 4:53pm
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