Description: A 5-8mm long nondescript brownish black beetle. Predatory. Very common in wetlands and upland peat.

NI account: Widespread and abundant in all kinds of wet habitats.

Ecology: Strongly hygrophilous but eurytopic, and found in a great variety of wetlands from riverbank carr, lakeshores and fens to upland blanket peat.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate species (54) found across Europe south to central France and east into western Siberia.

Similar Species: All other Europhilus: wings full Agonum thoreyi: tarsi with furrows Agonum gracile: wings full; pronotum barely wider than one elytron

Key Identification Features:

• Medium, pronotum narrower than elytra, hind angles rounded
• Legs long and slender
• Mentum with median tooth (Fig. 103)
• Claws simple
• Third antennal segment pubescent, at least apically
• Tarsi without median furrow
• Wings strongly reduced
• Pronotum much wider than one elytron

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

iNaturalist: Agonum fuliginosum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Agonum fuliginosum | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Agonum

Thumbnails for genus Agonum