Description: A 4.5-6mm long reddish-brown ground beetle. Found mainly in sedge or reed litter in riverine marshes and grasslands. Locally common. Climbs vegetation.

NI account: Widespread in suitable localities but less common in the west.

Ecology: Recorded from similar sorts of places to Demetrias i.e. grass tussocks on sand-dunes, in riverine marshes and along lakeshores, and mostly on better-drained mineral soils.

Distribution: A European Southern-temperate species (83) distributed from southern Fennoscandia to Iberia and north Africa and east to Asia Minor and the Caucasus.

Similar Species: The brown colour, size and linear shape will distinguish this from other Irish Dromius.

Key Identification Features:

• Small, flat, elongate, with small pronotum
• Elytra parallel-sided and truncate
• 4th tarsal segments sometimes emarginate at apex, never broad or bilobed, claws dentate
• Size >5mm
• Elytra only with a partial basal bead (outside 3rd striae)
• Pronotum - Fig. 98

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

iNaturalist: Paradromius linearis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Paradromius linearis | Classification: Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paradromius

Thumbnails for genus Paradromius