Description: A medium (7-8.5mm) dark red-brown ground beetle with conspicuous mouth-parts found on rich soils in meadows, fields and gardens. Widespread but usually found singly.

NI account: Widespread but scarce and nearly always encountered singly.

Ecology: Mostly recorded from rich humus soils on well vegetated lakeshores or in damp deciduous woodland.

Distribution: A European Wide-temperate species (63) distributed across west-central and southern Europe to the Caucasus and Asia Minor. Introduced in North America (Bousquet, 1987).

Key Identification Features:

• Medium, mandibles very long and protruding (Fig. 58)
• First antennal segment longer than 2nd and 3rd together
• Pronotum cordate

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

iNaturalist: Stomis pumicatus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Stomis pumicatus | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Stomis

Thumbnails for genus Stomis