Description: A large (15mm), fast moving, yellow ground beetle with black elytral markings. Gregarious and predatory, probably feeding on sandhoppers. Occurs in or near the tidal zone, on bare sand or sandy clay under beach debris. Adults have been found from May to October, and through the winter. Extremely local and confined to south-east coasts.

NI account: Confined to south-eastern coasts from Carnsore Point, Wexford to just south of Mizen Head in Wicklow (Anderson, 1987).

Ecology: Confined to sandy shorelines backed by dune systems or coastal rocks, in less humanly disturbed coastal areas.

Distribution: A Suboceanic Southern temperate species (82) found on coasts from the western Mediterranean, around Iberia to France and the southern British Isles.

Key Identification Features:

• Pronotum transverse, cordate (Fig. 7)
• Four basal segments of antennae glabrous
• Yellow with black blotches
• Coastal sands only

Distribution Map from NBN: Eurynebria complanata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Eurynebria complanata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Nebria complanata | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria

Thumbnails for genus Nebria