Amara fulva ( Mueller , 1776)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 571

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Amara fulva ( Mueller , 1776)
status

 

Amara fulva ( Mueller, 1776)

Carabus fulvus O.F. Müller, 1776: 77. Type locality: Denmark and Norway (inferred from title of the book); «Denmark» selected by Lindroth (1968: 680). Syntype(s) lost (Lindroth 1968: 680).

Carabus concolor Olivier, 1795: [35] 80 [primary homonym of Carabus concolor Gmelin, 1790 and Carabus concolor Fabricius, 1792]. Type locality: "environs de Paris" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in MHNP). Synonymy established by Illiger (1801: 53).

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known only in eastern Canada from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 101) to the Gaspé Peninsula (Larochelle 1975: 44) and the north shore of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec (Brown 1932b: 200), including southern Labrador (Lindroth 1955a: 101). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Newfoundland in 1905 (Lindroth 1955a: 101).

Records.

CAN: LB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), PE, QC - Adventive

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Amara