Taxonomy
- Adephaga
- Carabidae
- Bembidion
- Bembidion
- Bembidion quadripustulatum
Common name
Scarce Four-dot Pin-palp
Description
Size: 3.3-4.2mm
Basic colour: Shining metallic black.
Pronotoum: Wider than long.
Leg colour: Pale brown with metallic dark brown or black femora.
Confusion species: Bembidion illigeri
, Confusion species: Bembidion quadrimaculatum
Basic colour: Shining metallic black.
Pronotoum: Wider than long.
Leg colour: Pale brown with metallic dark brown or black femora.
Confusion species: Bembidion illigeri
, Confusion species: Bembidion quadrimaculatum
UK Priority Species data collation Bembidion quadripustulatum
Biology
Status: Very scarce. Very local in southern and eastern England and east Wales.
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: Damp, sometimes shaded bare mud or clay.
Other notes: Frontal furrows only slightly convergent. Elytra with four discrete spots, dark shoulders. All striae present almost to elytral apex.
UKBAP Species: Yes
Habitat: Damp, sometimes shaded bare mud or clay.
Other notes: Frontal furrows only slightly convergent. Elytra with four discrete spots, dark shoulders. All striae present almost to elytral apex.
Articles
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(2008), Two modern records of Bembidion quadripustulatum Serville (Carabidae) from Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, and comments on its wider British status The Coleopterist 17(1):49