Description: Small (3.5-4mm) metallic black ground beetle with yellow elytral variegations. Lives among litter in marshes, usually near the sea. Burren only.

NI account: Added to the Irish List by Anderson (1981) from the shores of Lough Bunny, Clare. Only two specimens have been taken to date but it is probably under-recorded. Strongly south-eastern in Britain.

Ecology: Mainly coastal, in well-vegetated fens, estuaries and saltmarshes.

Distribution: Distributed along the coasts of Europe as well as inland from southern Fennoscandia to the Mediterranean and east to the Caspian Sea and western Siberia. Eurosiberian Wide-temperate (64).

Similar Species: Bembidion assimile: smaller (2.8-3.5mm); elytra without variegations B. clarkii: smaller (2.8-3.5mm); elytra without variegations; pronotum shiny from reduced microsculpture

Key Identification Features:

• Small (3.5-4mm)
• Terminal segment of palpi much reduced (Fig. 31)
• With metallic sheen, and elytra with variegations
• Frontal furrows double throughout (Fig. 47)
• Pronotum dull from microsculpture

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

iNaturalist: Bembidion fumigatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Bembidion