Description: 8-9.5mm long green-black Amara of open ground with sparse vegetation, such as roadsides, gardens, quarries, railway embankments etc. Widespread and common.

NI account: Widespread and locally common.

Ecology: Mainly recorded from dryish places in arable fields, gardens and quarries.

Distribution: A Eurasian Wide-temperate species (65) occurring across Europe, south to Iran, and Siberia to Japan.

Similar Species: Amara montivaga: pronotum characteristic, without sinuation inside hind angles (Fig. 81) A. eyrinota: elytral intervals flat towards apex; size >10mm A. similata: pronotum with sides nearly parallel-sided in basal half (Fig. 81)

Key Identification Features:

• Body stout and a characteristic 'oval' shape
• Head with two supra orbital punctures
• Elytra with pore-puncture at base of scutellar stria
• Terminal spur of pro-tibia simple
• Antennae with 3 (or 4) pale basal segments
• Size <10mm, broad, convex, tibiae dark
• Elytral striae deepened towards apex, intervals convex
• Pronotum evenly rounded at sides, sinuate inside hind angles (Fig. 81)

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

iNaturalist: Amara ovata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Amara