Description: A 7.5-9mm long Amara of wet meadows, marshes and peatlands. Widely distributed.

NI account: Very widespread but not very common. Also in peaty uplands in the north.

Ecology: Eurytopic and found on a variety of soil types. Recorded from gardens, pasture and Calluna heath up to moderate altitudes.

Distribution: Circumpolar Boreo-temperate (56), found across Europe south to Iran and east across Siberia to northern N. America.

Similar Species: The only Irish species with 1 or 2 pale basal segments of antennae - Note: specimens with completely dark antennae occur occasionally

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 1 or 2 pale basal segments
• Elytral striae moderate, intervals convex
• Femora dark

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

iNaturalist: Amara lunicollis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Amara