Amara fusca Dejean, 1828
Taxonomy: Adephaga > Carabidae > Amara > Celia > Amara fusca
Common name:
Wormwood Moonshiner
Images
Source:
Roger Key
Description
Size: 7.5-8.5mm
Basic colour: Mid to dark brown with a brassy metallic reflection.
Pattern colour: Elytra sometimes reddish.
Pronotoum: Narrower than the elytra, sides evenly rounded just in front of hind angles which are minutely toothed.
Leg colour: Mid to light brown
Confusion species: Amara consularis
, Confusion species: Amara equestris
Basic colour: Mid to dark brown with a brassy metallic reflection.
Pattern colour: Elytra sometimes reddish.
Pronotoum: Narrower than the elytra, sides evenly rounded just in front of hind angles which are minutely toothed.
Leg colour: Mid to light brown
Confusion species: Amara consularis
, Confusion species: Amara equestris
UK Priority Species data collation Amara fusca
Biology
Status: Scarce. Recently only known from Suffolk. Formally known in Glamorgan, Kent and Sussex.
RDB Category: Vulnerable
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: In dry open sandy places such as gravel workings, roadside verges and dunes.
Other notes: Hind margin slightly sinuate, foveae distinct and punctured but without ridge inside the hind angles. Scutellery pore absent, elytral striae narrow and finely punctured, intervals almost flat. Wings present.
RDB Category: Vulnerable
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: In dry open sandy places such as gravel workings, roadside verges and dunes.
Other notes: Hind margin slightly sinuate, foveae distinct and punctured but without ridge inside the hind angles. Scutellery pore absent, elytral striae narrow and finely punctured, intervals almost flat. Wings present.
Articles
Ramsay, A.J. (2011). Amara fusca Dejean (Carabidae) rediscovered in Wales: the first Welsh record for over 150 years. The Coleopterist 20(2): 93.
Telfer, M.G. & Eversham, B.C. (1994). Amara fusca Dejean established in Britain. The Coleopterist 3(2): 35.