Description: 4-5.2mm long black ground beetle with four dull orange-brown spots on the elytra. Moist, sparsely vegetated ground generally. Widespread.

NI account: One of the more widespread Bembidion species, second only to B. tetracolum within subgenus Peryphus. Found throughout, except on the higher hills or on deep peat.

Ecology: Characteristic of a variety of water margin habitats, as well as clayey agricultural land. Often found in company with Bembidion tetracolum and species of Subgenus Philochthus in Ireland.

Distribution: A Eurasian Boreo-temperate species (55), distributed from Scandinavia to southern Europe and east into central Siberia.

Similar Species: Bembidion tetracolum: larger; at least second antennal segment pale, legs pale; pronotum often shinier Bembidion femoratum: flatter; elytral striae shallower; second antennal segment pale; pronotum often shinier

Key Identification Features:

• Small (4-5.2mm)
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• Elytral striae disappearing apically and 2nd weaker than 1st
• Pronotum strongly cordate
• Elytra four-spotted
• Convex species
• Elytral striae deep, strongly punctate
• Second antennal segment and legs dark

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion bruxellense at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion