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Species Amara eurynota

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)

Species eurynota (Amara eurynota)

Explanation of Names

Amara eurynota (Panzer 1796)

Size

perhaps the largest member of this subgenus, at 9.0-11.0 mm(1)

Range

native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA (e. NF, few localities)(2)

Habitat

open places(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NF 1971(2)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.

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

Contributed by v belov on 8 March, 2014 - 6:30pm
Last updated 8 December, 2014 - 11:28am

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