Many old records and ecological notes attributed to this species have to be treated with caution due to confusion between this species and the very similar A. pubescens Curtis.
Old records purporting to be of this species from the British mainland are referable to A. pubescens. This species is only known from the Channel Islands (Jersey), but there are no recent records.
Abroad, it occurs across Europe to China and Korea in the east.
The Channel Islands are, for a number of reasons, excluded from the geographical coverage of the British Red Data book (Shirt, 1987) and the subsequent review (Falk, 1991).
No data available for the Channel Islands. In general, species of the genus are associated with dry, sandy areas.
The literature sources for Europe cite May to September.
Ammophila campestris preys exclusively on larvae of sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae (Lomholdt, 1984).
No data available with certainty, due to the earlier confusion with A. pubescens.
No data available.
No data available.
2018