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Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) recorded in Buckinghamshire (vice-county 24) VERSION 2.2. Authors: Mark G. Telfer and Martin C. Harvey. Date: 17 May 2007. Based on data held on the MapMate database at BMERC, comprising 1,491 Buckinghamshire ground beetle records at 22 February 2007, plus some subsequent edits to the list. This includes data from the national Ground Beetle Recording Scheme, supplied by Mark Telfer, and from Reid (1979). Records have been contributed by around 80 people, especially Mark Telfer, Chris Reid and Mike Jackson. 1. Species list We currently have Buckinghamshire records for 149 species (over a third of the UK total of 367 species). Of these, 42 species have not been recorded since before 1980; 13 (including many of the rarer species) not since before 1960. However, 13 species appear to be new to the county list since Reid’s 1979 list. Taxonomy follows the MapMate database species dictionary. Species
Authority
Abax parallelepipedus
(Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) Acupalpus dubius Schilsky, 1888 Acupalpus Dejean, 1829 exiguus Acupalpus (Linnaeus, meridianus 1761) Acupalpus (Sturm, 1825) parvulus Agonum afrum (Duftschmid, 1812) Agonum (Panzer, 1809) fuliginosum Agonum gracile Sturm, 1824 Agonum (Linnaeus, marginatum 1758) Agonum micans Nicolai, 1822 Agonum muelleri (Herbst, 1784) Agonum thoreyi Dejean, 1828 Agonum viduum (Panzer, 1796) Amara aenea (De Geer, 1774) Amara apricaria (Paykull, 1790) Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810) Amara convexior Stephens, 1828 Amara eurynota (Panzer, 1796) Amara familiaris (Duftschmid, 1812) Amara lucida (Duftschmid, 1812) Amara lunicollis Schiödte, 1837 Amara ovata (Fabricius, 1792) Amara plebeja (Gyllenhal, 1810) Amara similata (Gyllenhal, 1810)
No. of Latest national records record status 65 2006
11 3
2006 2003
3
1999
3
1990
11
1979
21
1990
2 3
1979 1986
1 4 9 4 14
1979 1992 1980 1979 2000
9 1
2003 1979
3 1 22
2007 2006 2004
1
1957
1 5
1957 2001
20
2000
7
2006
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Species
Authority
Anchomenus dorsalis Anisodactylus binotatus Anthracus consputus Asaphidion curtum Asaphidion stierlini Badister bullatus Badister sodalis
(Pontoppidan, 1763) (Fabricius, 1 1787) (Duftschmid, 3 1812) (Heyden, 1870) 2
Bembidion aeneum Bembidion articulatum Bembidion assimile Bembidion biguttatum Bembidion bruxellense Bembidion clarkii
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Bembidion deletum Bembidion dentellum Bembidion doris Bembidion fumigatum Bembidion genei Bembidion gilvipes Bembidion guttula Bembidion lampros
No. of Latest national records record status 14 2000 1979 1979 2003
(Heyden, 1880) 2
2002
(Schrank, 1798) 10 (Duftschmid, 1 1812) Germar, 1824 1
1999 1979
(Panzer, 1795)
1999
10
1979
Gyllenhal, 1810 6
1979
(Fabricius, 23 1779) Wesmael, 1835 2
1979 1990
Dawson, 1849
2
1957
AudinetServille, 1821 (Thunberg, 1787) (Panzer, 1796) (Duftschmid, 1812) Küster, 1847 Sturm, 1825
4
2003
9
1999
3 2
1990 1957
4 6
1999 2003
30
2000
20
2002
(Fabricius, 1792) (Herbst, 1784)
Nationally Scarce/Nb
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Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb Nationally Scarce/Nb
Ground beetles in Buckinghamshire Species
Authority
Bembidion lunulatum Bembidion mannerheimii Bembidion obtusum Bembidion properans Bembidion quadrimaculatum Bembidion tetracolum Brachinus crepitans Bradycellus harpalinus Bradycellus ruficollis Bradycellus sharpi Bradycellus verbasci Calathus fuscipes Calathus melanocephalus Calathus rotundicollis Carabus granulatus Carabus monilis
(Fourcroy, 1785) Sahlberg, C.R., 11 1827 Audinet10 Serville, 1821 Stephens, 1828 5
Carabus nemoralis Carabus problematicus Carabus violaceus Chlaenius vestitus Cicindela campestris Clivina fossor Curtonotus aulicus Curtonotus convexiusculus Cychrus caraboides Demetrias atricapillus Demetrias imperialis Dromius agilis Dromius linearis Dromius melanocephalus Dromius meridionalis Dromius quadrimaculatus Dromius spilotus Dyschirius aeneus Dyschirius globosus Elaphrus cupreus Elaphrus riparius Harpalus affinis
(Linnaeus, 1761) Say, 1823
No. of Latest national records record status 14 2000 1999 2000 2006
11
1991
14
1999
1
1957
11
2003
3
1981
5
1990
11
2003
13 2
2006 1990
9
1997
Linnaeus, 1758 6
2003
Fabricius, 1792 1
1957
Müller, O.F., 1764 Herbst, 1786
18
2003
12
2003
Linnaeus, 1758 52
2002
(Paykull, 1790)
1979
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Serville, 1821) (Stephens, 1828) Joy, 1912 (Duftschmid, 1812) (Goeze, 1777) (Linnaeus, 1758) Dejean, 1828
2
Linnaeus, 1758 10
1998
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Panzer, 1796)
16
1990
6
2003
1
1979
8
2003
27
2005
7
1979
(Marsham, 1802) (Linnaeus, 1758) (Linnaeus, 1758) (Germar, 1824) (Fabricius, 1787) (Olivier, 1795) Dejean, 1825
4
2002
27 19
2006 2006
Dejean, 1825
5
1979
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Illiger, 1798) (Dejean, 1825)
22
2006
14 1
2006 1979
(Herbst, 1784)
1
1990
Duftschmid, 9 1812 (Linnaeus, 12 1758) (Schrank, 1781) 11
1998 1999
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Species
Authority
Harpalus latus
(Linnaeus, 1758) Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812) Harpalus rufipes (De Geer, 1774) Harpalus tardus (Panzer, 1796) Laemostenus (Herbst, 1784) terricola Lasiotrechus (Fabricius, discus 1792) Lebia (Hoffmannsegg, chlorocephala 1803) Lebia (Linnaeus, cyanocephala 1758) Leistus (Linnaeus, ferrugineus 1758) Leistus Dejean, 1826 fulvibarbis Leistus (Duftschmid, rufomarginatus 1812) Leistus (Fabricius, spinibarbis 1775) Leistus (Hellwig in terminatus Panzer, 1775) Licinus (Paykull, 1790) depressus Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius, 1775) Microlestes (Sturm, 1827) maurus Microlestes (Goeze, 1777) minutulus Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius, 1792) Notiophilus (Linnaeus, aquaticus 1758) Notiophilus (Fabricius, biguttatus 1779) Notiophilus Fauvel, 1863 germinyi Notiophilus (Duftschmid, palustris 1812) Notiophilus Curtis, 1829 rufipes Notiophilus Waterhouse, substriatus G.R., 1833 Ocys harpaloides (AudinetServille, 1821) Olisthopus (Paykull, 1790) rotundatus Ophonus Lutschnik, 1922 ardosiacus Ophonus azureus (Fabricius, 1775) Ophonus melletii Heer, 1837/8
No. of Latest national records record status 5 1993 3
2000
33
2003
1 3
1979 1957
1
1957
3
1980
1
1957
14
2003
11
2000
6
1999
11
2006
8
1979
1
1957
31
2003
4
2000
1
2006
45
2006
1
1979
50
2005
3
1979
4
1990
4
2000
9
2003
3
2002
2
1992
3
2003
1
1979
1
2003
Ophonus punctatulus
(Duftschmid, 1812)
1
1957
Ophonus puncticeps Ophonus rufibarbis Ophonus rupicola
(Stephens, 1828) (Fabricius, 1792) Sturm, 1818
1
1979
19
2000
3
1992
Oxypselaphus obscurus Panagaeus bipustulatus
(Herbst, 1784)
10
1990
(Fabricius, 1775)
2
1980
2006
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Nationally Scarce/Nb Nationally Scarce/Nb Red Data Book 1
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb Nationally Scarce/Nb Nationally Scarce/Na UK BAP Priority; Nationally Scarce/Na
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Ground beetles in Buckinghamshire Species
Authority
Paranchus albipes Patrobus atrorufus Perigona nigriceps Platynus assimilis Poecilus cupreus
(Fabricius, 1796) (Ström, 1768)
7
2002
(Dejean, 1831)
1
1990
(Paykull, 1790) (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sturm, 1824)
16 20
2006 2006
3
2004
(Panzer, 1795)
3
1979
(Sturm, 1824)
6
1990
(Dejean, 1828)
4
1979
(Marsham, 1802) (Fabricius, 1775) (Illiger, 1798)
4
1996
103
2007
11
2005
(Gyllenhal, 8 1827) (Schaller, 1783) 20
1990
(Paykull, 1790)
1996
Poecilus versicolor Pterostichus anthracinus Pterostichus diligens Pterostichus gracilis Pterostichus macer Pterostichus madidus Pterostichus melanarius Pterostichus minor Pterostichus niger Pterostichus nigrita
No. of Latest national records record status 22 2000
11
2006
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Nationally Scarce/Nb
Species
Authority
Pterostichus oblongopunctatus Pterostichus quadrifoveolatus Pterostichus rhaeticus Pterostichus strenuus Pterostichus vernalis Sphodrus leucophthalmus Stenolophus mixtus Stomis pumicatus Syntomus foveatus Syntomus obscuroguttatus Synuchus vivalis Tachys bistriatus
(Fabricius, 1787) Letzner, 1852
Trechus obtusus Trechus quadristriatus Trechus secalis Trichocellus placidus
Heer, 1837/8
No. of Latest national records record status 1 1979 Nationally Scarce/Nb 1 1979 Nationally Scarce/Nb 2 1999
(Panzer, 1796)
44
2003
(Panzer, 1795)
14
2000
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Herbst, 1784)
1
1952
10
2006
(Panzer, 1795) (Fourcroy, 1785) (Duftschmid, 1812) (Illiger, 1798) (Duftschmid, 1812) Erichson, 1837 (Schrank, 1781)
14 5
2003 1997
8
2006
1 1
1975 1957
8 26
1990 2005
14 10
1979 2000
(Paykull, 1790) (Gyllenhal, 1827)
Nationally Scarce/Nb
There are also records on the database for Asaphidion flavipes s.l. (s.l. = sensu lato, ‘in the broad sense’). Until the publication of Speight et al. (1986), British coleopterists had thought only one small Asaphidion occurred in Britain and called it Asaphidion flavipes. Speight et al. (1986) revealed that there were actually three very similar species: A. curtum, A. stierlini and A. flavipes s.s. (s.s. = sensu stricto, ‘in the narrow sense’). Only A. curtum and A. stierlini have been reliably recorded in Buckinghamshire.
A further 14 species are listed in Reid (1979) as requiring confirmation in Buckinghamshire (Nationally Scarce species are asterisked): Agonum piceum Amara communis Amara consularis * Amara montivaga Badister peltatus *
Bembidion decorum Bembidion femoratum Calathus erratus Clivina collaris Dromius notatus
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Harpalus rufipalpis [Harpalus tenebrosus *; coastal species, very unlikely in Bucks] Ophonus schaubergerianus * Stenolophus teutonus *
Ground beetles in Buckinghamshire
2. Records per month
Records per month 250 200 150 100 50 0 Jan
Feb Mar
Apr
May Jun
Jul
Aug Sep
Oct Nov Dec
3. Top ten most frequently recorded species
4. Top ten most widespread species
Species Pterostichus madidus Abax parallelepipedus Carabus violaceus * Notiophilus biguttatus Nebria brevicollis Pterostichus strenuus Harpalus rufipes Loricera pilicornis Bembidion guttula Demetrias atricapillus Dromius linearis
Species Pterostichus madidus Carabus violaceus * Nebria brevicollis Abax parallelepipedus Notiophilus biguttatus Pterostichus strenuus Harpalus rufipes Dromius linearis Bembidion guttula Loricera pilicornis
No. of records 103 65 52 50 45 44 33 31 30 th 27 (=10 ) th 27 (=10 )
No. of tetrads 36 23 21 19 19 18 18 16 14 13
* : Carabus violaceus is well-known as the “Violet Ground-beetle”, one of the largest ground-beetles on the Bucks list. Unfortunately, many recorders are unaware that there is a very similar species that can cause identification problems: Carabus problematicus. In our experience, C. problematicus is the more widespread species in Bucks, so it is likely that many of the Violet Ground Beetle records entered as C. violaceus actually refer to C. problematicus.
Pterostichus madidus © entomart.ins see: http://home.tiscali.be/entomart.ins/
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Ground beetles in Buckinghamshire
5. Recording in Buckinghamshire
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SP
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7
7
TL
4
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6
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All tetrads (2km × 2km squares) with at least one ground beetle record
1
SU 5
6
7
8
9
5
TQ
1
Species richness per tetrad; ‘hotspots’ from north to south are: 1. Linford and Stanton Woods 2. Howe Park Wood 3. Weston Turville Reservoir 4. Burnham Beeches 5. Langley Park/Black Park This is very much a reflection of recording effort rather than beetle distribution!
6. References Reid, C. 1979. An annotated list of the Buckinghamshire Carabidae (Coleoptera) including twenty species not previously recorded. Records of Buckinghamshire, XXI: 77–80. Speight, M.C.D., Martinez, M. & Luff, M.L. 1986. The Asaphidion (Col.: Carabidae) species occurring in Great Britain and Ireland. Proceedings and Transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, 19: 17–21. Please send all records of ground beetles to the national recorder: Dr Mark G. Telfer 10 Northall Road, Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU6 2DQ or alternatively send records to BMERC and we will pass them on.
For further information please contact Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre email:
[email protected] - web: www.bucksmkerc.org.uk phone: 01296 696012 - post: BMERC, Museum Resource Centre, Tring Road, Halton, Aylesbury, HP22 5PN
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