Description: 4-5.5mm long brownish black ground beetle living among reed and other litter of fens and lowland river banks. Widespread but local.

NI account: Widespread but mainly in the east and south, on lowland river margins, lakeshores and swamps.

Ecology: It has been recorded from fens, marshes and well-vegetated riverbanks and lakeshores in mesotrophic to eutrophic conditions.

Distribution: A Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate species (54) found across Europe from Fennoscandia south to Italy and east into the Caucasus, Asia Minor and western Siberia.

Similar Species: Dicheirotrichus cognatus: smaller (3.5-4.2mm); only first antennal segment pale, legs dark

Key Identification Features:

• Small (4-5.5mm), fairly convex and short-legged
• Lateral margins of upper surface punctate and pubescent
• Pronotum with rounded hind angles
• Abbreviated scutellar striae absent
• Two to three basal antennal segments pale and legs entirely pale

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

iNaturalist: Dicheirotrichus placidus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Dicheirotrichus placidus | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Dicheirotrichus

Thumbnails for genus Dicheirotrichus