Bembidion quadripustulatum Audinet-Serville, 1821
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
Alexander, K.N.A. (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.