Amara californica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Genus: | Amara |
Species: | A. californica |
Binomial name | |
Amara californica Dejean, 1828 | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Amara californica is a species of black coloured [2] beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
There are two subspecies of A. californica:
Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight or cup of gold, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the United States and Mexico. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant flowering in summer, with showy cup-shaped flowers in brilliant shades of red, orange and yellow. It is also used as food or a garnish. It became the official state flower of California in 1903.
Amara is a large genus of carabid beetles, commonly called the sun beetles. Many are holarctic, but a few species are neotropical or occur in eastern Asia.
Polygala is a large genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Polygalaceae. They are commonly known as milkworts or snakeroots. The genus is distributed widely throughout much of the world in temperate zones and the tropics. The genus name Polygala comes from the ancient Greek "much milk", as the plant was thought to increase milk yields in cattle.
Amara aenea is a ground beetle common in almost the whole of Europe and Northern Asia. Its range covers also parts of Northern Africa. It is known as the common sun beetle.
Amara littoralis is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae. It is native to parts of Asia.
Amara angustata is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara aulica is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the Harpalinae subfamily. It is native to Europe.
Amara aurata is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara deparca is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara carinata is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara confusa is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara chalcea is a species of beetle of the genus Amara in the family Carabidae.
Amara communis is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae found in Ireland, from Siberia to Kamchatka, and Caucasus. The species are 6–8mm in length, and live in moss.
Armina californica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Arminidae.
A. californica may refer to:
Pertusaria is a large genus of warty crustose lichens in the Pertusariaceae family. The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that immersed in warts on the main body (thallus) with small holes for the spores to emerge, similar to ostioles, or are fully above and lecanorine (spore bearing discs surrounded by a ring of tissue similar to the tissue of the thallus. Members of the genus are commonly called wart lichens.
Amara sinuosa is a species of ground beetle in the genus Amara, in the family Carabidae . It is found in North America.
Amara cupreolata is a species of seed-eating ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.
Amara lunicollis is a species of seed-eating ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia, North America, and temperate Asia.