Amara

Taxobox
name = Sun beetles

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Amara aenea"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
familia = Carabidae
subfamilia = Harpalinae
tribus = Zabrini
genus = "Amara"
genus_authority = Bonelli, 1810
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "See text"

"Amara", the sun beetles, are a large genus of carabid beetles, mostly holarctic, but a few species are neotropical or occurring in eastern Asia.

These ground beetles are mostly black or bronze-coloured. They are herbivorous and used as weed control agents.

pecies

:"Amara acuticauda":"Amara aenea":"Amara aeneopolita":"Amara alpestris":"Amara alpina":"Amara ambulans":"Amara americana":"Amara amplipennis":"Amara angustata":"Amara angustior":"Amara anthobia":"Amara apachensis":"Amara apricaria":"Amara armeniaca":"Amara aulica":"Amara aurata":"Amara aurichalcea":"Amara avida":"Amara basillaris":"Amara belfragei":"Amara biarticulata":"Amara bifrons":"Amara blanchardi":"Amara bokori":"Amara bowditchi":"Amara brevicollis":"Amara browni":"Amara brunnea":"Amara californica":"Amara carinata":"Amara castalia":"Amara castanea":"Amara celiana":"Amara chalcea":"Amara chaudoiri":"Amara clememtina":"Amara coelebs":"Amara colvillensis":"Amara communis":"Amara concreta":"Amara conflata":"Amara confusa":"Amara conoidea":"Amara consularis":"Amara convexa":"Amara convexior":"Amara convexiuscula":"Amara coraica":"Amara crassipina":"Amara cupreolata":"Amara curta":"Amara daurica":"Amara decora":"Amara devincta":"Amara disproportionalis":"Amara ellipsis":"Amara emancipata":"Amara equestris":"Amara erratica":"Amara eurynota":"Amara exarata":"Amara eyrinota":"Amara famelica":"Amara familiaris":"Amara farallonica":"Amara farcta":"Amara ferruginea":"Amara finitima":"Amara fodinae":"Amara fortis":"Amara fulva":"Amara gebleri":"Amara gigantea":"Amara gisellae":"Amara glacialis":"Amara greenei":"Amara haldermani":"Amara hanhaica":"Amara harpalina":"Amara harpaloides":"Amara helopioides":"Amara hicksi":"Amara hilaris":"Amara horni":"Amara humilis":"Amara hyperborea":"Amara idaloana":"Amara immunda":"Amara impuncticollis":"Amara inpunctata":"Amara infima":"Amara infuscata":"Amara ingenua":"Amara insignis":"Amara insularis":"Amara interstitialis":"Amara iridipennis":"Amara irkuteana":"Amara jacinto":"Amara jacobina":"Amara jucunda":"Amara kinitzi":"Amara lacustris":"Amara laevipennis":"Amara laevissima":"Amara latior":"Amara lauta":"Amara littoralis":"Amara littorea":"Amara longula":"Amara lunicollis":"Amara magnicollis":"Amara majuscula":"Amara maneei":"Amara maxwelli":"Amara megacephala":"Amara mexicana":"Amara minnesotana":"Amara microdera":"Amara microphthalma":"Amara minuta":"Amara modulata":"Amara morio":"Amara municipalis":"Amara musculis":"Amara neomexicana":"Amara nexa":"Amara nigricornis":"Amara nitida":"Amara novella":"Amara nupera":"Amara obesa":"Amara obsolescens":"Amara oglobini":"Amara ovalis":"Amata ovata":"Amara paganica":"Amara pallipes":"Amara patricia":"Amara patruelis":"Amara patula":"Amara peciloides":"Amara pennsylvanica":"Amara perspecta":"Amara pimalis":"Amara plebeja":"Amara parvicollis":"Amara plebeja":"Amara pomona":"Amara praetermissa":"Amara pseudobrunnea":"Amara pterostichina":"Amara purpurascens":"Amara quadrifossulata":"Amara quenslii":"Amara relicta":"Amara retangula":"Amara robustula":"Amara rotundiceps":"Amara rubrica":"Amara rufocincta":"Amara rupicola":"Amara rustica":"Amara saginata":"Amara sanjuanensis":"Amara saxicola":"Amara schwarzi":"Amara scitula":"Amara scolopax":"Amara shantzi":"Amara shinanensis":"Amara similata":"Amara sinuosa":"Amara sodalica":"Amara solskyi":"Amara somoni":"Amara spadicea":"Amara spaldingi":"Amara specularis":"Amara sponsor":"Amara spreta":"Amara strenua":"Amara stupida":"Amara tartarea":"Amara taurica":"Amara texana":"Amara thoracica":"Amara tibialis":"Amara torrida":"Amara tricuspidata":"Amara tschitscherinella":"Amara tumida":"Amara ussuriensis":"Amara vegasemsis":"Amara virgilax":"Amara virginica":"Amara volatilis"

External links

* [http://www.evergreen.edu/ants/TESCBiota/kingdom/animalia/phylum/arthropoda/class/insecta/order/coleoptera/family/Carabidae/genera/AMara/Amara.htm "Amara" Bonelli 1810]