Ameles heldreichi Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882

Nutrition:
The species lives predatory and captures mostly other arthropods.

Habitat:
Ameles heldreichi inhabits grassy, warm, dry terrain, often with individual shrubs. I found Ameles heldreichi on the Olympic Riviera (Lithochoro) on the coast in a fallow land that is highly threatened by tourism.

Life cycle:
The adults occur in summer and early autumn. The ooth hibernate.

Endangerment factors:
Ameles heldreichi is threatened by habitat loss (cultivation, overbuilding).

Remarks:
Ameles heldreichi is distributed on the southern Balkans (Bulgaria, Greece). Additionally it is also known from Cyprus, the Near East and across Asia Minor to the Ukraine.