# List of ground beetle (Carabidae) species recorded in Britain

The following is a list of the ground beetles recorded in Britain, organised by subfamily (-inae endings) and by tribe (-ini endings). For other beetle families, see the main list of beetle species recorded in Britain.

## Cicindelinae Latreille, 1802

* Cicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758
* Cicindela hybrida Linnaeus, 1758
* Cicindela maritima Latreille & Dejean, 1822
* Cicindela sylvatica Linnaeus, 1758
* Cylindera germanica (Linnaeus, 1758)

## Brachininae Bonelli, 1810

* Brachinus crepitans (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Brachinus sclopeta (Fabricius, 1792)

## Omophroninae Bonelli, 1810

* Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777)

## Carabinae Latreille, 1802
### Carabini Latreille, 1802

* Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Calosoma sycophanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Carabus clatratus Linnaeus, 1761
* Carabus arvensis Herbst, 1784
* Carabus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758
* Carabus monilis Fabricius, 1792
* Carabus nemoralis O. F. Müller, 1764
* Carabus auratus Linnaeus, 1761
* Carabus nitens Linnaeus, 1758
* Carabus glabratus Paykull, 1790
* Carabus problematicus Herbst, 1786
* Carabus intricatus Linnaeus, 1761
* Carabus violaceus Linnaeus, 1758
* Cychrus caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Nebriini Laporte, 1834

* Leistus montanus Stephens, 1827
* Leistus rufomarginatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Leistus spinibarbis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Leistus fulvibarbis Dejean, 1826
* Leistus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Leistus terminatus (Hellwig in Panzer, 1793)
* Nebria livida (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius, 1792)
* Nebria salina Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854
* Nebria nivalis (Paykull, 1790)
* Nebria rufescens (Ström, 1768)
* Eurynebria complanata (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Pelophila borealis (Paykull, 1790)

### Notiophilini Motschulsky, 1850

* Notiophilus aesthuans Motschulsky, 1864
* Notiophilus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Notiophilus biguttatus (Fabricius, 1779)
* Notiophilus germinyi Fauvel, 1863
* Notiophilus palustris (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Notiophilus quadripunctatus Dejean, 1826
* Notiophilus rufipes Curtis, 1829
* Notiophilus substriatus G. R. Waterhouse, 1833

### Elaphrini Latreille, 1802

* Blethisa multipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Elaphrus cupreus Duftschmid, 1812
* Elaphrus lapponicus Gyllenhal, 1810
* Elaphrus uliginosus Fabricius, 1792
* Elaphrus riparius (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Loricerini Bonelli, 1810

* Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius, 1775)
* Clivina collaris (Herbst, 1784)
* Clivina fossor (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Dyschirius angustatus (Ahrens, 1830)
* Dyschirius obscurus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
* Dyschirius thoracicus (Rossi, 1790)
* Dyschirius aeneus (Dejean, 1825)
* Dyschirius extensus Putzeys, 1846
* Dyschirius globosus (Herbst, 1784)
* Dyschirius impunctipennis Dawson, 1854
* Dyschirius luedersi Wagner, 1915
* Dyschirius nitidus (Dejean, 1825)
* Dyschirius politus (Dejean, 1825)
* Dyschirius salinus Schaum, 1843

### Broscini Hope, 1838

* Broscus cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Miscodera arctica (Paykull, 1798)

### Trechini Bonelli, 1810

* Perileptus areolatus (Creutzer, 1799)
* Aepus marinus (Ström, 1783)
* Aepus robinii (Laboulbène, 1849)
* Trechus rivularis (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Trechus secalis (Paykull, 1790)
* Trechus fulvus Dejean, 1831
* Trechus obtusus Erichson, 1837
* Trechus quadristriatus (Schrank, 1781)
* Trechus rubens (Fabricius, 1792)
* Trechus subnotatus Dejean, 1831
* Thalassophilus longicornis (Sturm, 1825)
* Blemus discus (Fabricius, 1792)
* Trechoblemus micros (Herbst, 1784)
* Tachys bistriatus (Duftschmid, 1812) ?
* Tachys micros (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828)
* Tachys obtusiusculus (Jeannel, 1941)
* Tachys scutellaris Stephens, 1828
* Elaphropus parvulus (Dejean, 1831)
* Elaphropus walkerianus (Sharp, 1913)
* Asaphidion curtum (Heyden, 1870)
* Asaphidion flavipes (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Asaphidion pallipes (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Asaphidion stierlini (Heyden, 1880)
* Ocys harpaloides (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
* Ocys quinquestriatus (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Cillenus lateralis Samouelle, 1819
* Bracteon argenteolum (Ahrens, 1812)
* Bracteon litorale (Olivier, 1790)
* Bembidion nigricorne Gyllenhal, 1827
* Bembidion lampros (Herbst, 1784)
* Bembidion properans (Stephens, 1828)
* Bembidion punctulatum Drapiez, 1821
* Bembidion pallidipenne (Illiger, 1802)
* Bembidion bipunctatum (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Bembidion dentellum (Thunberg, 1787)
* Bembidion obliquum Sturm, 1825
* Bembidion semipunctatum (Donovan, 1806)
* Bembidion varium (Olivier, 1795)
* Bembidion ephippium (Marsham, 1802)
* Bembidion prasinum (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Bembidion virens Gyllenhal, 1827
* Bembidion atrocaeruleum (Stephens, 1828)
* Bembidion caeruleum Audinet-Serville, 1826
* Bembidion geniculatum Heer, 1837/8
* Bembidion tibiale (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Bembidion bruxellense Wesmael, 1835
* Bembidion bualei Jacquelin du Val, 1852
* Bembidion decorum (Zenker in Panzer, 1800)
* Bembidion deletum Audinet-Serville, 1821
* Bembidion femoratum Sturm, 1825
* Bembidion fluviatile Dejean, 1831
* Bembidion lunatum (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Bembidion maritimum (Stephens, 1835)
* Bembidion monticola Sturm, 1825
* Bembidion saxatile Gyllenhal, 1827
* Bembidion stephensii Crotch, 1866
* Bembidion testaceum (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Bembidion tetracolum Say, 1825
* Bembidion illigeri Netolitzky, 1914
* Bembidion stomoides Dejean, 1831
* Bembidion inustum Jacquelin du Val, 1857
* Bembidion nigropiceum (Marsham, 1802)
* Bembidion gilvipes Sturm, 1825
* Bembidion schuppelii Dejean, 1831
* Bembidion assimile Gyllenhal, 1810
* Bembidion clarkii (Dawson, 1849)
* Bembidion fumigatum (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Bembidion minimum (Fabricius, 1792)
* Bembidion normannum Dejean, 1831
* Bembidion humerale Sturm, 1825
* Bembidion quadrimaculatum (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Bembidion quadripustulatum Audinet-Serville, 1821
* Bembidion doris (Panzer, 1796)
* Bembidion articulatum (Panzer, 1795)
* Bembidion octomaculatum (Goeze, 1777)
* Bembidion obtusum Audinet-Serville, 1821
* Bembidion aeneum Germar, 1824
* Bembidion biguttatum (Fabricius, 1779)
* Bembidion guttula (Fabricius, 1792)
* Bembidion iricolor Bedel, 1879
* Bembidion lunulatum (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
* Bembidion mannerheimii C. R. Sahlberg, 1827
* Pogonus chalceus (Marsham, 1802)
* Pogonus littoralis (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Pogonus luridipennis (Germar, 1822)

### Patrobini Kirby, 1837

* Patrobus assimilis Chaudoir, 1844
* Patrobus atrorufus (Ström, 1768)
* Patrobus septentrionis Dejean, 1828

### Pterostichini Bonelli, 1810

* Stomis pumicatus (Panzer, 1795)
* Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Poecilus kugelanni (Panzer, 1797)
* Poecilus lepidus (Leske, 1785)
* Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824)
* Pterostichus cristatus (Dufour, 1820)
* Pterostichus aethiops (Panzer, 1796)
* Pterostichus madidus (Fabricius, 1775)
* Pterostichus longicollis (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Pterostichus aterrimus (Herbst, 1784)
* Pterostichus macer (Marsham, 1802)
* Pterostichus niger (Schaller, 1783)
* Pterostichus adstrictus Eschscholtz, 1823
* Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
* Pterostichus quadrifoveolatus Letzner, 1852
* Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger, 1798)
* Pterostichus anthracinus (Panzer, 1795)
* Pterostichus gracilis (Dejean, 1828)
* Pterostichus minor (Gyllenhal, 1827)
* Pterostichus nigrita (Paykull, 1790)
* Pterostichus rhaeticus Heer, 1837/8
* Pterostichus vernalis (Panzer, 1795)
* Pterostichus diligens (Sturm, 1824)
* Pterostichus strenuus (Panzer, 1796)
* Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)
* Abax parallelus (Duftschmid, 1812)

### Sphodrini Laporte, 1834

* Platyderus depressus (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
* Synuchus vivalis (Illiger, 1798)
* Calathus rotundicollis Dejean, 1828
* Calathus ambiguus (Paykull, 1790)
* Calathus cinctus Motschulsky, 1850
* Calathus erratus (C. R. Sahlberg, 1827)
* Calathus fuscipes (Goeze, 1777)
* Calathus melanocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Calathus micropterus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Calathus mollis (Marsham, 1802)
* Sphodrus leucophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Laemostenus complanatus (Dejean, 1828)
* Laemostenus terricola (Herbst, 1784)
* Olisthopus rotundatus (Paykull, 1790)
* Oxypselaphus obscurus (Herbst, 1784) ?
* Paranchus albipes (Fabricius, 1796)
* Anchomenus dorsalis (Pontoppidan, 1763)
* Platynus assimilis (Paykull, 1790) ?
* Batenus livens (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Sericoda quadripunctata (De Geer, 1774)
* Agonum fuliginosum (Panzer, 1809)
* Agonum gracile Sturm, 1824
* Agonum micans Nicolai, 1822
* Agonum piceum (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Agonum scitulum Dejean, 1828
* Agonum thoreyi Dejean, 1828
* Agonum chalconotum Ménétriés, 1832
* Agonum emarginatum (Gyllenhal, 1827)
* Agonum ericeti (Panzer, 1809)
* Agonum gracilipes (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Agonum lugens (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Agonum marginatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Agonum muelleri (Herbst, 1784)
* Agonum nigrum Dejean, 1828
* Agonum sexpunctatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Agonum versutum Sturm, 1824
* Agonum viduum (Panzer, 1796)
* Zabrus tenebrioides (Goeze, 1777)
* Amara plebeja (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Amara strenua Zimmermann, 1832
* Amara aenea (De Geer, 1774)
* Amara anthobia Villa & Villa, 1833
* Amara communis (Panzer, 1797)
* Amara convexior Stephens, 1828
* Amara curta Dejean, 1828
* Amara eurynota (Panzer, 1796)
* Amara famelica Zimmermann, 1832
* Amara familiaris (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Amara lucida (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Amara lunicollis Schiødte, 1837
* Amara montivaga Sturm, 1825
* Amara nitida Sturm, 1825
* Amara ovata (Fabricius, 1792)
* Amara similata (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Amara spreta Dejean, 1831
* Amara tibialis (Paykull, 1798)
* Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)
* Amara cursitans (Zimmermann, 1832)
* Amara fusca Dejean, 1828
* Amara infima (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Amara praetermissa (C. R. Sahlberg, 1827)
* Amara quenseli (Schönherr, 1806)
* Amara apricaria (Paykull, 1790)
* Amara consularis (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Amara fulva (O. F. Müller, 1776)
* Amara equestris (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Curtonotus alpinus (Paykull, 1790)
* Curtonotus aulicus (Panzer, 1796)
* Curtonotus convexiusculus (Marsham, 1802)

### Harpalini Bonelli, 1810

* Harpalus calceatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus griseus (Panzer, 1797)
* Harpalus rufipes (De Geer, 1774)
* Harpalus affinis (Schrank, 1781)
* Harpalus anxius (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus attenuatus Stephens, 1828
* Harpalus cupreus Dejean, 1829
* Harpalus dimidiatus (Rossi, 1790)
* Harpalus froelichii Sturm, 1818
* Harpalus honestus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus laevipes Zetterstedt, 1828
* Harpalus latus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Harpalus neglectus Audinet-Serville, 1821
* Harpalus pumilus Sturm, 1818
* Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus rufipalpis Sturm, 1818
* Harpalus serripes (Quensel in Schönherr, 1806)
* Harpalus servus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus smaragdinus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Harpalus tardus (Panzer, 1796)
* Harpalus melancholicus Dejean, 1829
* Harpalus tenebrosus Dejean, 1829
* Ophonus ardosiacus Lutshnik, 1922
* Ophonus azureus (Fabricius, 1775)
* Ophonus sabulicola (Panzer, 1796)
* Ophonus stictus Stephens, 1828
* Ophonus cordatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Ophonus laticollis Mannerheim, 1825
* Ophonus melletii (Heer, 1837/8)
* Ophonus parallelus (Dejean, 1829)
* Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828
* Ophonus puncticollis (Paykull, 1798)
* Ophonus rufibarbis (Fabricius, 1792)
* Ophonus rupicola (Sturm, 1818)
* Ophonus schaubergerianus (Puel, 1937)
* Ophonus subsinuatus Rey, 1886
* Anisodactylus binotatus (Fabricius, 1787)
* Anisodactylus nemorivagus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Anisodactylus poeciloides (Stephens, 1828)
* Diachromus germanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Scybalicus oblongiusculus (Dejean, 1829)
* Dicheirotrichus gustavii Crotch, 1871
* Dicheirotrichus obsoletus (Dejean, 1829)
* Trichocellus cognatus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
* Trichocellus placidus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
* Bradycellus caucasicus (Chaudoir, 1846)
* Bradycellus csikii Laczó, 1912
* Bradycellus distinctus (Dejean, 1829)
* Bradycellus harpalinus (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
* Bradycellus ruficollis (Stephens, 1828)
* Bradycellus sharpi Joy, 1912
* Bradycellus verbasci (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Stenolophus comma (Fabricius, 1775)
* Stenolophus mixtus (Herbst, 1784)
* Stenolophus skrimshiranus Stephens, 1828
* Stenolophus teutonus (Schrank, 1781)
* Acupalpus brunnipes (Sturm, 1825)
* Acupalpus dubius Schilsky, 1888
* Acupalpus elegans (Dejean, 1829)
* Acupalpus exiguus Dejean, 1829
* Acupalpus flavicollis (Sturm, 1825)
* Acupalpus maculatus (Schaum, 1860)
* Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1761)
* Acupalpus parvulus (Sturm, 1825)
* Anthracus consputus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Chlaenius nigricornis (Fabricius, 1787)
* Chlaenius nitidulus (Schrank, 1781)
* Chlaenius tristis (Schaller, 1783)
* Chlaenius vestitus (Paykull, 1790)
* Callistus lunatus (Fabricius, 1775)

### Oodini LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851

* Oodes helopioides (Fabricius, 1792)

### Licinini Bonelli, 1810

* Licinus depressus (Paykull, 1790)
* Licinus punctatulus (Fabricius, 1792)
* Badister bullatus (Schrank, 1798)
* Badister meridionalis Puel, 1925
* Badister unipustulatus Bonelli, 1813
* Badister sodalis (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Badister collaris Motschulsky, 1844
* Badister dilatatus Chaudoir, 1837
* Badister peltatus (Panzer, 1797)

### Panagaeini Bonelli, 1810

* Panagaeus bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1775)
* Panagaeus cruxmajor (Linnaeus, 1758)

### Perigonini Horn, 1881

* Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)

### Masoreini Chaudoir, 1870

* Masoreus wetterhallii (Gyllenhal, 1813)
* Lebia chlorocephala (J. Hoffmann, 1803)
* Lebia cyanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Lebia marginata (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
* Lebia scapularis (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
* Demetrias imperialis (Germar, 1824)
* Demetrias atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Demetrias monostigma Samouelle, 1819
* Cymindis axillaris (Fabricius, 1794)
* Cymindis macularis Mannerheim in Fischer von Waldheim, 1824
* Cymindis vaporariorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Paradromius linearis (Olivier, 1795)
* Paradromius longiceps (Dejean, 1826)
* Dromius agilis (Fabricius, 1787)
* Dromius angustus Brullé, 1834
* Dromius meridionalis Dejean, 1825
* Dromius quadrimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Calodromius spilotus (Illiger, 1798)
* Philorhizus melanocephalus (Dejean, 1825)
* Philorhizus notatus (Stephens, 1827)
* Philorhizus quadrisignatus (Dejean, 1825)
* Philorhizus sigma (Rossi, 1790)
* Philorhizus vectensis (Rye, 1873)
* Microlestes maurus (Sturm, 1827)
* Microlestes minutulus (Goeze, 1777)
* Lionychus quadrillum (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Syntomus foveatus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
* Syntomus obscuroguttatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
* Syntomus truncatellus (Linnaeus, 1761)

### Odacanthini Laporte, 1834

* Odacantha melanura (Linnaeus, 1767)

### Dryptini Schaum, 1857

* Drypta dentata (Rossi, 1790)
* Polistichus connexus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)