Description: A common 6-8mm long bronze-black Amara. Phytophagous. In most habitats, including gardens, arable land etc.

NI account: One of the commoner species and widespread.

Ecology: Eurytopic and recorded from wetter habitats than other Amara species, including tall vegetation near water, and light woodland.

Distribution: A Eurasian Boreo-temperate species (55) distributed across Europe and into western Siberia.

Similar Species: Distinguished from all other Irish species by the combination of presence of a basal pore puncture on the scutellar striae and trifid terminal spur of pro-tibiae

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 trifid (Fig. 80)
• Hind angles of pronotum simple
• Antennae with 3 (or 4) pale basal segments
• Femora dark

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

iNaturalist: Amara plebeja at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Amara