Taxonomy
- Adephaga
- Carabidae
- Anisodactylus
- Anisodactylus poeciloides
Common name
Saltmarsh Short-spur
Images
Source: John Walters
Source: Lech Borowiec
Description
Size: 9-12.5mm
Basic colour: Shining metallic coppery green.
Pronotoum: Sides rounded, hind angles curved and hardly distinct; base with coarse rugose punctuation, sides, anterior region and a part of disc sometimes finely punctured.
Leg colour: Black
Confusion species: Harpalus affinis
Basic colour: Shining metallic coppery green.
Pronotoum: Sides rounded, hind angles curved and hardly distinct; base with coarse rugose punctuation, sides, anterior region and a part of disc sometimes finely punctured.
Leg colour: Black
Confusion species: Harpalus affinis
UK Priority Species data collation Anisodactylus poeciloides
Biology
Status: Scarce. Local around the south and east coasts of England from Dorset to Suffolk.
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: Under stones and litter on open saline coastal habitats including the upper parts of saltmarshes.
Other notes: Elytral shoulders bluntly angled, bases of intervals with scattered punctures, outer two intervals with dense semi-errect pale pubescence; apices rounded, slightly diverging, with rather transverse sub-apical sinuatiuon.
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: Under stones and litter on open saline coastal habitats including the upper parts of saltmarshes.
Other notes: Elytral shoulders bluntly angled, bases of intervals with scattered punctures, outer two intervals with dense semi-errect pale pubescence; apices rounded, slightly diverging, with rather transverse sub-apical sinuatiuon.