Description: Small (4.5-5.5mm) bronze ground beetle of open ground, usually on peatlands at moderate to high altitude. Probably widespread in Ireland, but most current records are for the north.

NI account: Widespread but local across Ireland.

Ecology: Mainly in drier habitats. Recorded from dwarf shrub heaths and rough grassland up to the summits of mountains, often with N. aquaticus. Also reported from sandy coastal habitats.

Distribution: A European Boreo-temperate species (53) found across Europe north of the Pyrenees, east to the Caucasus.

Similar Species: Notiophilus palustris: frontal furrows forwardly diverging (Fig. 9)

Key Identification Features:

• Eyes large
• Small shiny, parallel-sided species
• Dark bronze
• Tibiae pale
• 2nd elytral interval > 3 times as broad as third (Fig. 10)
• Frontal furrows nearly parallel (Fig. 12)

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

iNaturalist: Notiophilus germinyi at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

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