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Amara aenea

Status not recordedbeetles

Amara aenea is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 8 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 54 countries, including Afghanistan, Albania and Algeria.

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Quick facts about Amara aenea

Weight
Not recorded
Length
6 mm – 8 mm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivore
Main food
flowers
Habitat
grassland, human_modified
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
By day (diurnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
54 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is Amara aenea?

AMARA AENEA · LENGTH 8 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 8 mm, the recorded maximum length of the amara aenea is about 0.5% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Amara aenea live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Amara aenea is listed for 54 countries.

CanadaKazakhstanUzbekistanNorwayFranceLebanonTunisiaAlgeriaJordanIraqMongoliaIndiaNepalPakistanAfghanistanKyrgyzstanTurkmenistanArmeniaSwedenBelarusUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceAlbaniaCroatiaSwitzerlandBelgiumNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandChinaItalyDenmarkAzerbaijanGeorgiaSloveniaFinlandSlovakiaCyprusMoroccoEgyptLibyaMacedonia
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  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Albania
  3. Algeria
  4. Armenia
  5. Austria
  6. Azerbaijan
  7. Belarus
  8. Belgium
  9. Bulgaria
  10. Canada
  11. Cape Verde
  12. China
  13. Croatia
  14. Cyprus
  15. Denmark
  16. Egypt
  17. Estonia
  18. Finland
  19. France
  20. Georgia
  21. Germany
  22. Greece
  23. Hungary
  24. India
  25. Iraq
  26. Ireland
  27. Italy
  28. Jordan
  29. Kazakhstan
  30. Kyrgyzstan
  31. Latvia
  32. Lebanon
  33. Libya
  34. Lithuania
  35. Malta
  36. Mongolia
  37. Morocco
  38. Nepal
  39. Netherlands
  40. North Macedonia
Show 14 more countries
  1. Norway
  2. Pakistan
  3. Poland
  4. Portugal
  5. Romania
  6. Slovakia
  7. Slovenia
  8. Spain
  9. Sweden
  10. Switzerland
  11. Tunisia
  12. Turkmenistan
  13. Ukraine
  14. Uzbekistan

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Amara aenea as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Canada
  2. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Amara aenea endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Amara aenea classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusAmara
  7. SpeciesAmara aenea (DeGeer, 1774)

Synonyms Amara aenea, Amara angustata, Amara antennata, Amara brunnicornis, Amara brunniventris, Amara coerulescens, Amara cuprea, Amara devillai, Amara devillei, Amara devincta, Amara exarata, Amara foveolata, Amara fuscipes, Amara iljinskii, Amara impressa, Amara irregularis, Amara luciae, Amara maculipes, Amara marginata, Amara nigroaenea, Amara nigrocoerulea, Amara nigrocuprea, Amara nigrofemorata, Amara nigropicea, Amara obtusa, Amara palanda, Amara palustris, Amara parvula, Amara persica, Amara punctata, Amara punctulata, Amara rufiventris, Amara sincera, Amara sororcula, Amara thisbe, Amara trivialis, Amara versicolor, Amara virescens, Amara viridicans, Amara viridis, Amara vogesiaca, Carabus aeneus, Harpalus aeneus, Harpalus trivialis

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Amara aenea

Other species in the same genus Amara.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Amara aenea?

An adult Amara aenea measures 6 mm – 8 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Amara aenea live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Amara aenea for 54 countries, including Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia and Austria. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What does Amara aenea eat?

Its recorded main food is flowers.

Is Amara aenea an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Amara aenea as introduced in 2 countries: Canada and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Amara aenea?

Amara aenea (Amara aenea) belongs to the family Carabidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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BibTeX
@misc{amara_aenea_2026,
  title = {Amara aenea (Amara aenea)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/amara-aenea},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}