Ground Beetles of Ireland
Badister peltatus
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Badister peltatus (Panzer, 1797)
Description: A 4-5mm brown-black Badister similar to both B. dilatatus and B. collaris. Found on mud amongst lush vegetation at the margins of standing water. Very local species, in the south-west only.
World Distribution: A Eurosiberian temperate species (74) distributed from western and northern Europe to the Caucasus and central Siberia.
Irish Status: The first confirmed Irish record is that of Speight (1977) for Garryland Wood, south-east Galway. It has a scattered distribution in south-western counties and is rarer than B. dilatatus. Known from Galway, Clare and Roscommon.
Ecology: It has very similar requirements to B. dilatatus with which it has been recorded on several occasions.