Description: A medium-small (4.5-5.5mm) bronze ground beetle, living among shingle and on wet sand at the side of small rivers and lakeshores, particularly in the uplands.

NI account: Widespread but local in hill areas where suitable gravelly riverbanks exist. Northern and western in Britain according to Luff (1998).

Ecology: A riparian species recorded from gravel or coarse sand on riverbanks and lakeshores.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate species (54) found in montane situations across Europe except Fennoscandia, south to north Africa and Asia Minor and east into western Siberia.

Similar Species: Bembidion bipunctatum: smaller (3.6-4.6mm); pronotum impunctate in central area; elytral striae fading towards elytral apex; legs dark

Key Identification Features:

• Size 4.5-5.5mm, dark bronze
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Head and pronotum with coarse puncturation
• Elytra striae deep to apex
• Legs pale

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion punctulatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion