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Seed-Eating Ground Beetle? - Amara laevipennis

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: (1)
My thanks for confirmation or otherwise!

GrBet 065 - Sent to Peter W. Messer

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Moved

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.

Thank you V!
Moved from Ground Beetles.

Amara, sure

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