Amara (Amara) similata (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Chapman, Anna Nicola, 2014, The Influence of Landscape Heterogeneity - Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Fthiotida, Central Greece, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1082-1082 : 1082

Amara (Amara) similata (Gyllenhal, 1810)

Distribution

Near transpalaearctic ( Arndt et al. 2011).

Notes

It prefers damp areas, riverbanks and water meadows ( Anderson et al. 2000), but it will also inhabit arable fields ( Popovic and Štrbac 2010), where it favours autumn planted crops ( Holland and Luff 2000). It is a polyphagous species. The adults feed mainly on seeds, which they find by climbing into the vegetation. However, they can also prey on invertebrates ( Thiele 1977). This species was found in small numbers in the maize field in the heterogeneous area (n = 5), the olive grove in the homogeneous area (n = 5) and the wheat field in the homogeneous area (n = 2).