Description: A small (4mm) reddish-brown ground beetle of riverine floodplains, hiding in crevices on river and stream margins. Widespread but local.

NI account: Local and uncommon in lowland districts of the east, but possibly overlooked because of its subterranean habits.

Ecology: Recorded principally from the alluvia of riverine flood plains. It has also been pitfall-trapped on arable farmland, although this is probably a secondary habitat.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Wide-temperate species (64) distributed across the whole of Europe into western Siberia.

Similar Species: Blemus discus: eyes larger; pronotum glabrous; brighter, more rufous

Key Identification Features:

• Sutural stria of elytra recurrent at apex (Fig. 35)
• Frontal furrows running round to the back of the eyes (Fig. 32)
• Both elytra and pronotum pubescent
• Dull yellow-brown, dark macula on elytra usually faint or absent

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

iNaturalist: Trechoblemus micros at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Trechoblemus micros | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechoblemus

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