Harpalus amputatus
Harpalus amputatus
Size: 9-11mm
Seasonality: March-November
Distribution; Northern Mexico and Western USA and CAN
Information: n/a
Description: body: elongate, semi-ovate, slender. Dorsal colouration; elytra dark matte blue-green to black, pronotal disk and head black, with some blue colouration, semi-glossy. Surface of the head mostly smooth, with two small dimples on the frons, which should not continue onto the clypeus. Labrum squarish, with wide, yellow lateral and anterior margins. Mandible short, very weakly curved, inner margins often straight. Palpi amber or dark orange with pale tips. Antennae dark reddish-brown, with antennal pubescence beginning on the second half of the first antennomere (segment 3) following the pedicel. Eyes small, strongly bulging laterally; a single setigerous pit should be located over each eye. Pronotum semi-quadrate, short; anterior margin weakly curved inward; anterior angles obtuse, often rounded; lateral margins and basal margin thinly beaded; lateral margins rounded; hind angles rounded-obtuse; basal margin weakly sinuate. Median line of varying strengths; disk entirely smooth aside from heavy micropuncturing inside of the shallow dimples found on either side of the weak lower median bulge. 8 well-defined striae per elytron, intervals flattish; apical half of the sutural margin may appear pale to dark orange, dull. Humeral shoulders obtuse, rounded; laterobasal ridges weak; lateral margins weakly rounded, elongate; apices rounded. Ventral faces dark, semi-glossy to oily matte.