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Amara brunnea

Description

Amara brunnea (Gyllenhal)

BC: Copper Mt., under stone, 4.IX.1929 (G. Stace­Smith) [UBC]; Creston, 17.III.1946, 1.VI.1947, 29.VII.1948 (G. Stace­Smith) [UBC]; Heffley Lake, 3.IX.1932 (G. Stace­Smith) [UBC]; Manning Park, Allison Pass, 27.VIII.1961 (G.G.E. Scudder) [UBC]; Nation River, Rainbow Creek, 29. VI.1940 (G.B. Rich) [UBC]; Rykert, 1.VIII.1949 (G. Stace­Smith) [UBC]; Tulameen 28.VII.1929 (G. Stace­Smith) [UBC].

Holarctic in distribution, A. brunnea is known in North America from AK and YT (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). Less xerophilous than most species of Amara, it lives in more or less shady habitats, usually on gravelly soil (Lindroth 1986). At White R., in the Yukon, it has been found to occur on fine sand, partially shaded by alder bushes, among dead leaves (Lindroth 1968). In Europe, this species hibernates as an adult (Lindroth 1945). Its wings are fully developed, but flight observations have not been reported (Lindroth 1992).

Notes

Published as part of Jarrett, J. R. & Scudder, G. G E., 2001, Carabidae (Coleoptera) New To British Columbia, With One Species New To Canada, pp. 378-384 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 55 (3) on page 379, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2001)055[0378:CCNTBC]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/10102796

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UBC , UBC, VI
Event date
1929-07-28 , 1929-09-04
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Amara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
brunnea
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1929-07-28/1949-08-01 , 1929-09-04/1961-08-27

References

  • Lindroth, C. H. 1986. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol. 15, Part 2. E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd., Copenhagen.
  • Lindroth, C. H. 1992. Ground Beetles (Carabidae) of Fennoscandia, Part 1. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and The National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C.