Description: An attractive small (4-5mm) yellow and greenish-bronze ground beetle found running on clean fine sands on sheltered marine beaches and sandy lakeshores. Local.

NI account: Abundant on sandy shorelines around Lough Neagh. and on sheltered sandy beaches at widely separated points around the Irish coast.

Ecology: Psammophilous and recorded only from damp, fine-sand habitats on the sea coast or on Lough Neagh. A common associate of Dyschirius obscurus on Lough Neagh, but in coastal habitats found with other species of Dyschirius. Increased human disturbance of coastal beaches constitutes a serious threat in several localities.

Distribution: An Oceanic temperate species (71) found along coasts in Europe from extreme south and west Fennoscandia to north Spain and Portugal.

Similar Species: Bembidion punctulatum/ bipunctatum: colour uniform, not variegated; forebody of similar width to hind body

Key Identification Features:

• Size 4-4.7mm, pronotum metallic, but elytra variegated yellow and greenish
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Forebody narrow compared to broad elytra
• Foreparts with coarse puncturation

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion pallidipenne at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion