Description: 4-5mm bronze ground beetle. Found in marshes and along riverbanks, also saltmarshes. Only in the southern half.

NI account: Mainly coastal in Ireland but confined to southern counties i.e. Dublin to Clare.

Ecology: Recorded mainly from fresh or brackish marshes on or near the coast.

Distribution: A Eurasian Wide-temperate (65) species distributed across most of Europe except the extreme north, into north Africa and Asia Minor, and east across Siberia to Kamchatka.

Similar Species: Bembidion dentellum: size larger (5.5-6mm); elytra iridescent; anterior supra-orbital punctures surrounded by raised shiny areas B. fumigatum: smaller (3.5-4mm); frontal furrows double; setiferous punctures on elytra touching the striae

Key Identification Features:

• Size 4-5mm
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Elytra variegated but not iridescent
• Anterior supra-orbital puncture not surrounded by a shiny area
• Setiferous punctures on third elytral intervals not touching striae

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion varium at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion