Description: A small (3.5-4.5mm) brassy ground beetle found on sandy mull river banks and lake shores among sparse vegetation. Local.

NI account: Locally common on shorelines around Loughs Neagh and Erne but very scattered and local elsewhere in Ireland.

Ecology: A species of highland streambanks or lakeshores where it occupies sparsely vegetated but not bare, silty shorelines. There is one record for an abandoned quarry.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Boreal-montane species (44) found across the whole of Europe to west Siberia, and into north Africa and Asia Minor. Mainly in mountains in the south of its range.

Similar Species: Bembidion punctulatum: size larger; pronotum punctate on disc; elytral striae impressed to apex; legs pale

Key Identification Features:

• Size 4-4.6mm, brassy to dark bronze or greenish
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Head and pronotum with coarse puncturation
• Pronotum impunctate in centre of disc
• Elytral striae fading towards apex
• Legs dark

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion bipunctatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion