Amara strenua
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Ground beetle |
| Red List Status: | Near Threatened (Not Relevant) [NT(nr)] |
| D5 Status: | Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022) |
| Section 41 Status: | (not listed) |
| Taxa Included Synonym: | (none) |
| UKSI Recommended Name: | Amara strenua |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | Zimmermann, C., 1832 |
| UKSI Recommended Qualifier: | (none specified) |
| Red List Citation: | Telfer, 2016 |
| Notes on taxonomy/listing: | (none) |
Criteria
| Question 1: | Does species need conservation or recovery in England? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Potentially under-recorded and not as restricted to coastal grassland as previously thought and/or increasing inland, for example A. strenua has been recorded in several new locations well inland in West and East Sussex in the last 5 years, most in floodplain grassland / flood refuse. A new inland population was also discovered in Belgium in 2022 suggesting that this species may indeed be naturally increasing through a wider part of its range. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Potentially under-recorded and not as restricted to coastal grassland as previously thought and/or increasing inland, for example A. strenua has been recorded in several new locations well inland in West and East Sussex in the last 5 years, most in floodplain grassland / flood refuse. A new inland population was also discovered in Belgium in 2022 suggesting that this species may indeed be naturally increasing through a wider part of its range. |
| Question 3: | At a landscape scale, would the species benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages? |
| Response: | N/A |
| Justification: |
Species Assessment
Not relevant as no Key Actions defined.
Key Actions
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Acknowledgment:
Data used on this website are adapted from Threatened species recovery actions 2025 baseline (JP065): Technical report and spreadsheet user guide (Natural England, 2025). Available here.