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Early Sunshiner

Amara famelica Zimmermann, 1832

Status not recordedbeetles

The early sunshiner (Amara famelica) is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 9 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Armenia and Austria.

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Quick facts about the early sunshiner

Weight
Not recorded
Length
7 mm – 9 mmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
31 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is the early sunshiner?

EARLY SUNSHINER · LENGTH 9 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 9 mm, the recorded maximum length of the early sunshiner is about 0.5% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the early sunshiner 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.

The early sunshiner is listed for 31 countries.

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

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

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: CarabCat (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

Is the early sunshiner 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 the early sunshiner classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCarabidae
  6. genusAmara
  7. SpeciesAmara famelica Zimmermann, 1832

Synonyms Amara antennata, Amara bibula, Amara contrusa, Amara nigricans, Amara punctatula

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • HedeovalløberDanish
  • Sjælden metalløberDanish
  • Nordöstlicher KamelläuferGerman
  • Grote heideglimmerDutch
  • strandkornlöpareSwedish

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistTAXREFWikidata

Relatives of the early sunshiner

Other species in the same genus Amara.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the early sunshiner?

An adult early sunshiner measures 7 mm – 9 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the early sunshiner live?

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

What kind of animal is the early sunshiner?

The early sunshiner (Amara famelica) 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). Early Sunshiner (Amara famelica). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/early-sunshiner

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BibTeX
@misc{early_sunshiner_2026,
  title = {Early Sunshiner (Amara famelica)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/early-sunshiner},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}