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)

Amara aenea is a ground beetle common in almost the whole 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[1] and soybean aphid,[2] which are considered pests by the agriculture industry. As such, this beetle is under study for use in integrated pest management. Larvae are omnivorous.[3]

The adults feed on the developing seed of Poa trivialis and smooth meadow grass Poa pratensis.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Karel Hůrka & Vojtěch Jarošík (2003). "Larval omnivory in Amara aenea (Coleoptera: Carabidae)" (PDF). European Journal of Entomology 100 (3): 329–335.
  4. ↑ Natural England description on website

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