Description: A 5-7mm long ground beetle with yellowish-bronze reflecting elytra. Lives in scraw, fen and poor fen habitats. Widespread but local.

NI account: Widespread and locally common, mainly in fen sites.

Ecology: A typical fen species but recorded also from densely vegetated lakeshores and riverbanks.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate species (54) found across Europe except the south, and eastwards into west Siberia.

Similar Species: Agonum micans: body unicolourous dark with greenish or bronze reflection; elytral epipleura brown, contrasting with dark elytra

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
• Wings full
• Pronotum barely wider than one elytron
• Upper surface faintly bronzed, pronotum dark, elytra light to dark brown, epipleura a similar colour

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

iNaturalist: Agonum piceum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

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

Thumbnails for genus Agonum