Description: A smallish (4.5-5.5mm) black Amara of dry sandy places with low vegetation such as sand dunes and heath. Phytophagous. Local, southern.

NI account: Scattered throughout Ireland especially on coastal sandy sites.

Ecology: Confined to well-drained and sunny, sandy or gravelly soils.

Distribution: A Eurasian Boreo-temperate species (55) recorded from most of Europe east to the Amur in Siberia and into Mongolia.

Similar Species: Distinguished from all other species on small body size and weakness of the scutellar striae

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
• Antennae with 3 (or 4) pale basal segments
• Size <6 mm, parallel-sided
• Scutellar striae interrupted and weak

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

iNaturalist: Amara tibialis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Amara