Callistus lunatus

RDB Category
Endangered
Size
6-7mm
Basic colour
Golden orange with black markings.
Pattern colour
Head blue-black, pronotum orange, elytra pale yellow, each with black shoulder, a median spot and apical transverse band.
Leg colour
Pale with most femora, tibial apices and tarsi darkened.

Calathus rotundicollis

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Amphigynus
  • Calathus rotundicollis

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Calodromius spilotus

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calodromius
  • Calodromius spilotus

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Callistus lunatus

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Callistus
  • Callistus lunatus

Description

Size: 6-7mm
Basic colour: Golden orange with black markings.
Pattern colour: Head blue-black, pronotum orange, elytra pale yellow, each with black shoulder, a median spot and apical transverse band.
Pronotoum: orange, cordate, hind angles rectangular.
Leg colour: Pale with most femora, tibial apices and tarsi darkened.

Biology

Status: In decline since 1930, not recorded since 1953. Once found locally in Kent, Surrey and Berkshire.
RDB Category: Endangered
Habitat: Open chalk grassland.
Other notes: Elytra rounded and convex, wings present.

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Calosoma inquisitor

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calosoma
  • Calosoma inquisitor

Description

Size: 16-22mm
Basic colour: Dark metallic bronze with green or purple reflections.
Pattern colour: Green or purple reflections especially strong beneath and at the edges of the elytra and pronotum.
Pronotoum: Transverse, with raised side borders only in front half. Elytra with 15 striae and strong cross-striation, given a rectangular pattern; fourth, eighth and twelfth intervals with 8-10 strong setiferous punctures.
Leg colour: Black.

Adults are arboreal and feed on Lepidopteran larvae.

Biology

Status: Local but widely distributed from southern England through mid-Wales and Cumbria to Scotland.
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: Old oak woodland.
Food: Caterpillar prey, such as Tortrix species.

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Calathus mollis

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Calathus
  • Calathus mollis

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Calathus micropterus

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Calathus
  • Calathus micropterus

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Calathus melanocephalus

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Calathus
  • Calathus melanocephalus

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Calathus ambiguus

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Calathus
  • Calathus ambiguus

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Calathus fuscipes

Taxonomy

  • Adephaga
  • Carabidae
  • Calathus
  • Calathus
  • Calathus fuscipes

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