Taxonomy
- Adephaga
- Carabidae
- Anisodactylus
- Anisodactylus binotatus
Images
Source: John Walters
Source: Lech Borowiec
Description
Size: 10-13mm
Basic colour: Black
Pattern colour: Pale spot on head, head and pronotum shining, elytra duller.
Pronotoum: Transverse, sides with a single long lateral seta, hind angles with a small tooth. Entire base densely and roughly punctured; anterior third also often with fine punctures.
Leg colour: Black, rarely brown.
Confusion species: Anisodactylus binotatus
, Confusion species: Anisodactylus nemorivagus
Basic colour: Black
Pattern colour: Pale spot on head, head and pronotum shining, elytra duller.
Pronotoum: Transverse, sides with a single long lateral seta, hind angles with a small tooth. Entire base densely and roughly punctured; anterior third also often with fine punctures.
Leg colour: Black, rarely brown.
Confusion species: Anisodactylus binotatus
, Confusion species: Anisodactylus nemorivagus
Biology
Status: Widespread in England and Wales and the west of Ireland, very local in lowland Scotland and the east of Ireland.
Habitat: Damp meadows and marshy habitat; arable land on poorly draining soils.
Other notes: Elytral shoulders rounded; striae unpunctured, intervals convex, with scattered punctures at the base of each interval; outer two intervals and apical region of elytra with fine golden pubescence. Apices diverging with oblique sub-apical sinuation. Wings present.
Habitat: Damp meadows and marshy habitat; arable land on poorly draining soils.
Other notes: Elytral shoulders rounded; striae unpunctured, intervals convex, with scattered punctures at the base of each interval; outer two intervals and apical region of elytra with fine golden pubescence. Apices diverging with oblique sub-apical sinuation. Wings present.