Description: A small (3-4.5mm) brassy-black ground beetle. Very common on open ground, particularly in gardens and on arable land.

NI account: Widespread and locally abundant, but scarce in the west. Widely distributed in Britain and the most frequently recorded Bembidion sp. according to Luff (1998).

Ecology: Fairly eurytopic in Ireland, but showing a preference for arable land and drier habitats near the east coast. Also reported widely from pitfall traps on drier types of Calluna heath.

Distribution: A Eurasian Wide-temperate species (65) species found across Europe to eastern Siberia and introduced to N. America.

Similar Species: (Bembidion properans: pronotal margins relatively broad; seventh elytra striae present, at least towards elytral base)

Key Identification Features:

• Small (3-4.5mm), shiny, bronze
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Pronotum cordate (Fig. 41)
• Frontal furrows simple (Fig. 42)
• Pronotal margins narrow (Fig. 41)
• Seventh elytral striae missing or present only as a row of weak punctures at base

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion lampros at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Bembidion lampros | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidion

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion