Description: Small (4.5-5.5mm) bronze ground beetle with faint greenish reflection. In Ireland restricted more or less to the eastern half and to coastal or other well-drained situations.

NI account: Widespread but confined to well-drained lowland sites and rarer than the other species. Possibly more in eastern coastal localities than elsewhere.

Ecology: Recorded mainly from well-drained agricultural soils, a habitat also occupied by N. biguttatus but undoubtedly very much scarcer than that species.

Distribution: A European Southern-temperate species (83) found from Spain and Italy northwards to Holland, western Germany and the British Isles.

Similar Species: Notiophilus biguttatus: punturation of upper surface coarse

Key Identification Features:

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

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

iNaturalist: Notiophilus substriatus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Notiophilus