Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 578

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

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scientific name

Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)
status

 

Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Harpalus bifrons Gyllenhal, 1810: 144. Type locality: "Bahusia [= Bohuslän], Hallandia [Sweden]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 700), in UZIU.

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 105) to western Quebec (Larochelle 1975: 43), south to Massachusetts (Davidson et al. 2011: 513). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Cape Breton Island in 1929 (Lindroth 1963a: Fig. 39).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: LB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), PE, QC USA: MA, ME, NH - Adventive

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Amara

Loc

Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Harpalus bifrons

Gyllenhal 1810
1810