Amara aenea

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.

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[1]
  • Amara devincta Casey, 1918
  • Carabus aeneus DeGeer, 1774

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
  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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