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Amara fulva

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Amara fulva is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 31 countries, including Armenia, Austria and Belarus.

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Quick facts about Amara fulva

Weight
Not recorded
Length
8 mm – 1 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
freshwater, grassland
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
Day and night (cathemeral)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
31 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is Amara fulva?

AMARA FULVA · LENGTH 1 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 1 cm, the recorded maximum length of the amara fulva is about 0.6% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Amara fulva 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 fulva is listed for 31 countries.

CanadaKazakhstanNorwayFranceArmeniaSwedenBelarusUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaCroatiaSwitzerlandBelgiumNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandItalyDenmarkGeorgiaSloveniaFinlandSlovakiaMacedonia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Armenia
  2. Austria
  3. Belarus
  4. Belgium
  5. Bulgaria
  6. Canada
  7. Croatia
  8. Denmark
  9. Estonia
  10. Finland
  11. France
  12. Georgia
  13. Germany
  14. Hungary
  15. Ireland
  16. Italy
  17. Kazakhstan
  18. Latvia
  19. Lithuania
  20. Netherlands
  21. North Macedonia
  22. Norway
  23. Poland
  24. Portugal
  25. Romania
  26. Slovakia
  27. Slovenia
  28. Spain
  29. Sweden
  30. Switzerland
  31. Ukraine

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Amara fulva as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Canada

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 fulva 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 fulva classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusAmara
  7. SpeciesAmara fulva (O.F.Müller, 1776)

Synonyms Amara aberrata, Amara aeneomicans, Amara concolor, Amara deleta, Amara impunctata, Amara iridipennis, Amara marginata, Amara pallida, Amara rubescens, Amara rufa, Bradytus fulvus, Buprestis rubescens, Carabus concolor, Carabus fulvus, Carabus pallidus, Cyrtonotus fulvus

Other names and names in other languages (6)
  • Gulbrun ovalløberDanish
  • kalvassiemenkiitäjäinenFinnish
  • Gele glimmerDutch
  • gul kornlöpareSwedish
  • Gulbrun metalløberDanish
  • Bruine glansloopkeverDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Amara fulva

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 fulva?

An adult Amara fulva measures 8 mm – 1 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Amara fulva live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Amara fulva for 31 countries, including Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium and Bulgaria. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Amara fulva an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Amara fulva as introduced in 1 country: Canada, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Amara fulva?

Amara fulva (Amara fulva) 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_fulva_2026,
  title = {Amara fulva (Amara fulva)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/amara-fulva},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}