Ground Beetles of Ireland
Bembidion fumigatum
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Bembidion fumigatum (Duftschmid, 1812)
Description: Small (3.5-4mm) metallic black ground beetle with yellow elytral variegations. Lives among litter in marshes, usually near the sea. Burren only.
World Distribution: Distributed along the coasts of Europe as well as inland from southern Fennoscandia to the Mediterranean and east to the Caspian Sea and western Siberia. Eurosiberian Wide-temperate (64).
Irish Status: Added to the Irish List by Anderson (1981) from the shores of Lough Bunny, Clare. Only two specimens have been taken to date but it is probably under-recorded. Strongly south-eastern in Britain.
Ecology: Mainly coastal, in well-vegetated fens, estuaries and saltmarshes.