Description: 4.5-6.5mm long bronze Amara of dry sandy grassland and sand dunes. Widespread but very local. Very close to A. familiaris and perhaps under-recorded.

NI account: Widely distributed but very local and rare and mainly near the coast. Coastal in Britain and restricted to England and Wales (Luff, 1998).

Ecology: Mostly in dune grassland on coasts.

Distribution: A European Southern-temperate species (83) found across Europe, except most of Fennoscandia, to Asia Minor and Iran.

Similar Species: Distinguished from other Irish Amara by the combination of dark antennae and pale legs, except A. familiaris: front angles of pronotum protruding, angulate (Fig. 82)

Key Identification Features:

• Body stout and a characteristic 'oval' shape
• Head with two supra orbital punctures
• Elytra lacking pore-puncture at base of scutellar stria
• Terminal spur of pro-tibia simple
• Hind angles of pronotum simple
• Antennae with 3 (or 4) pale basal segments
• Elytral striae moderately impressed, intervals convex apically
• Legs entirely pale
• Front angles of pronotum rounded, little protruding (Fig. 82)

Distribution Map from NBN: Amara lucida at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Amara lucida at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Amara lucida | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Amara

Thumbnails for genus Amara