Description: An 8-10mm black Amara with bronze reflections, found in marshy riverbanks and waste ground. Phytophagous.

NI account: Widely distributed but mostly in the south and east.

Ecology: Very similar in appearance to A. ovata, but recorded from wetter, riparian habitats and pasture.

Distribution: A Eurasian Wide-temperate species (65) found across the whole of Europe to eastern Siberia.

Similar Species: Amara montivaga: pronotum characteristic, without sinuation inside hind angles (Fig. 81) A. eyrinota: elytral intervals flat towards apex; size >10mm A. ovata: pronotum with sides evenly rounded (Fig. 81); tibiae dark

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 pale
• Elytral striae deepened towards apex, intervals convex
• Pronotum nearly parallel-sided in basal half, sinuate inside hind angles (Fig. 81)

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

iNaturalist: Amara similata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

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