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Amara ovata

Status not recordedbeetles

Amara ovata is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 41 countries, including Albania, Algeria and Armenia.

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Quick facts about Amara ovata

Weight
Not recorded
Length
7 mm – 1 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
grassland, human_modified
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
By day (diurnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
41 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is Amara ovata?

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

Where does Amara ovata 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 ovata is listed for 41 countries.

CanadaKazakhstanUzbekistanNorwayFranceAlgeriaKyrgyzstanTurkmenistanArmeniaSwedenBelarusUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceAlbaniaCroatiaSwitzerlandBelgiumNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandChinaItalyDenmarkAzerbaijanGeorgiaSloveniaFinlandSlovakiaJapanEgyptMacedonia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

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

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusAmara
  7. SpeciesAmara ovata (Fabricius, 1792)

Synonyms Amara adamantina, Amara aequatorialis, Amara audax, Amara aurichalcea, Amara bicolor, Amara brunnicornis, Amara brunnipes, Amara coerulescens, Amara cuprina, Amara detrita, Amara excepta, Amara fuscipes, Amara incisa, Amara kaulbacki, Amara melanochlora, Amara nigra, Amara nigroaenea, Amara picipes, Amara planata, Amara pratensis, Amara punctata, Amara quadrifoveolata, Amara rugosa, Amara sarsi, Amara similatoides, Amara tibialis, Amara tristis, Amara trivialis, Amara unipunctata, Amara versicolor, Amara viridis, Carabus ovatus, Carabus trivialis

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • Sortbenet ovalløberDanish
  • soikosiemenkiitäjäinenFinnish
  • Ovale glimmerDutch
  • bred kornlöpareSwedish
  • Sortbenet metalløberDanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Amara ovata

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 ovata?

An adult Amara ovata measures 7 mm – 1 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Amara ovata live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Amara ovata for 41 countries, including Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria and Azerbaijan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Amara ovata an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Amara ovata 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 ovata?

Amara ovata (Amara ovata) 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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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Amara ovata (Amara ovata). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/amara-ovata

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BibTeX
@misc{amara_ovata_2026,
  title = {Amara ovata (Amara ovata)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/amara-ovata},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}