Dyschirius aeneus (Dejean, 1825)
Description: Small (3.5mm) shiny bronze black fossorial ground beetle. Lives on bare wet ground by water - riverbanks, peatlands, edges of sandpits etc. Widely distributed but local, much rarer in the north.
Distribution Map from NBN: Dyschirius aeneus at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Dyschirius aeneus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
GBIF data for Dyschirius aeneus | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Dyschirius
Thumbnails for genus Dyschirius
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