Amara aenea

Amara aenea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Amara
Species:	A. aenea
Binomial name
	Amara aenea; (De Geer, 1774)
Synonyms
	Amara devincta Casey, 1918; Carabus aeneus DeGeer, 1774;

Amara aenea is a ground beetle common in almost the whole of Europe and Northern Asia. Its range covers also parts of Northern Africa. It is known as the common sun beetle.

A. aenea adults are predators that eat other insects, such as the apple maggot^[2] and soybean aphid,^[3] which are considered pests by the agriculture industry. As such, this beetle is under study for use in integrated pest management. Larvae are omnivorous.^[4]

The adults feed on the developing seed of Poa trivialis and smooth meadow grass Poa pratensis.^[5]

References[]

^ Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico" (PDF). ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
^ M. E. O'Neil; K. S. Mason; R. Isaacs (2005). "Seasonal abundance of ground beetles in highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) fields and response to a reduced-risk insecticide program" (PDF). Environmental Entomology. 34 (2): 378–384. doi:10.1603/0046-225X-34.2.378. S2CID 85559558.
^ Claire E. Rutledge; Robert J. O'Neil; Tyler B. Fox; Douglas A. Landis (2004). "Soybean aphid predators and their use in integrated pest management" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97 (2): 240–248. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0240:SAPATU]2.0.CO;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-08-27.
^ Karel Hůrka; Vojtěch Jarošík (2003). "Larval omnivory in Amara aenea (Coleoptera: Carabidae)" (PDF). European Journal of Entomology. 100 (3): 329–335. doi:10.14411/eje.2003.052.
^ "Natural England description on website". Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-08-30.

External links[]

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[Bousquet2012-1] Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico" (PDF). ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.

[2] M. E. O'Neil; K. S. Mason; R. Isaacs (2005). "Seasonal abundance of ground beetles in highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) fields and response to a reduced-risk insecticide program" (PDF). Environmental Entomology. 34 (2): 378–384. doi:10.1603/0046-225X-34.2.378. S2CID 85559558.

[3] Claire E. Rutledge; Robert J. O'Neil; Tyler B. Fox; Douglas A. Landis (2004). "Soybean aphid predators and their use in integrated pest management" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97 (2): 240–248. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0240:SAPATU]2.0.CO;2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-08-27.

[4] Karel Hůrka; Vojtěch Jarošík (2003). "Larval omnivory in Amara aenea (Coleoptera: Carabidae)" (PDF). European Journal of Entomology. 100 (3): 329–335. doi:10.14411/eje.2003.052.

[5] "Natural England description on website". Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-08-30.

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Taxon identifiers
Amara aenea	Wikidata: Q1301445 Wikispecies: Amara aenea ADW: Amara_aenea BioLib: 4227 BOLD: 307005 BugGuide: 197219 EoL: 1023415 EPPO: AMARAE EUNIS: 110638 Fauna Europaea: 382134 Fauna Europaea (new): 7c534963-fd11-4cf7-ae6c-bd7ce297342d Fossilworks: 292704 GBIF: 1035185 iNaturalist: 130433 IRMNG: 10190605 ITIS: 110907 NBN: NBNSYS0000007343 NCBI: 585988 uBio: 548886
Carabus aeneus	Wikidata: Q109659002 GBIF: 4472872