Amara communis (Panzer, 1797)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 594

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Amara communis (Panzer, 1797)
status

 

Amara communis (Panzer, 1797)

Carabus communis Panzer, 1797: no 2. Type locality: Germany (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMHB).

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known from the Maritime Provinces (Bousquet 1992a: 504; Majka 2005: 534) and Connecticut (Majka 2005: 534) [see Majka 2005: Fig. 1]. The record from the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec (Majka 2005: 534), is based on a misidentified specimen of Amara aenea (CNC). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in New Brunswick in 1988 (Bousquet 1992a: 504).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, PE USA: CT - Adventive

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Amara