Ground Beetles of Ireland
Agonum marginatum
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Agonum marginatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Description: A 8.5-10.5mm long bright metallic green beetle with conspicuous yellow sides to the elytra. Locally common in marshy places, especially bare mud at the side of ponds and lakes.
World Distribution: A European Wide-temperate (63) or possibly Southern-temperate species found across most of Europe except the extreme north, into north Africa and east to the Caucasus and western Turkestan.
Irish Status: Widespread but local. Often abundant where it occurs.
Ecology: Helophilous, often seen running in warm sunshine on partially vegetated shorelines of lakes and rivers, usually on clayish substrata.