Description: Small (6-8.5mm) bronze-black ground beetle with conspicuously bristly antennae. Very common everywhere but especially gardens, open gravelly or sandy sites and streamsides in mountains.

NI account: Widely distributed and abundant throughout.

Ecology: A very eurytopic, largely diurnal species, but with a preference for open habitats. Widespread in most habitats, including mountains, where it occurs along streambanks, and on moraine or summit breccia.

Distribution: A circumpolar Boreo-temperate species (56), distributed from Europe south to northern Spain and across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean and North America.

Key Identification Features:

• Elytra with ten striae and some punctate depressions on 4th interval
• Small, bronze
• Basal segments (2-6) of antennae with very long setae (Fig. 18)

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

iNaturalist: Loricera pilicornis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Loricera pilicornis | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Loricera

Thumbnails for genus Loricera