Description: Small (5-6mm) bronze ground beetle. Diurnal, on open ground, including gardens and arable, but almost anywhere from the shoreline to montane peatlands. Very common.

NI account: Widespread and common throughout.

Ecology: A eurytopic species but mainly in shaded habitats. On the Continent regarded as a eurytopic woodland species (Lindroth, 1985; Marggi, 1992), but occurring in a wider range of habitats in the British Isles including gardens and upland heaths.

Distribution: Widespread across the European Boreo-temperate zone (53).

Similar Species: Notiophilus substriatus: punturation of upper surface fine

Key Identification Features:

• Eyes large
• Small shiny, parallel-sided species
• Brassy
• 2nd elytral interval about 2 times as broad as third (Fig. 10)
• Puncturation of upper surface coarse

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

iNaturalist: Notiophilus biguttatus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Notiophilus biguttatus | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Notiophilus

Thumbnails for genus Notiophilus