e tz- ScA5,--+E vai Ll\-0 T Y cC' Institute of NAT URE CONSERVATION imams . Te rrestrial COMM ITTEE l ip Ecology Provisional atlas of the ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidaej of Britain M a rtin L Luf f (Dep artment of Agricu ltu ral &' Ak Vironm ente4 Science, - University of Newcastle up on t yne) ,c, Ce ntre for Ecology and Hydro logy Natural Environm ent Research Co uncil NE RC Cop yngbt 1998 [say ./ 8 70393 41 4 The Institute of Terresuial Ecology (ITE) is a component research organisation within the Natural Environment Research Cou ncil. Th e Institute is part of the Centre for Ecology and Hyd rology, and was established in 1973 by the merge r of the resea rch stations of the Natu re c onservancy with th e Instinite of Tree Biology. It has been at the fo refront of ecological research ever since , The six research stations of th e Institute pro vide a ready access to sites and to environmental and eco logical problems in any part of Britain. 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P u blis h e d by B iolog ica l Records Centre D r Martin L Luff Institute of Terrestrial Ecology Dep artm ent of Ag ricultu ra l and Monks Wood Environ men tal Science A bb ots Rp on Un iversity of Newcastle up on Tyn e H u n ting don Newcastle up on Tyn e Ca m bs PE17 2LS NEI 7RU Tel: 0148 7 77338 1 Fax : 0148 7 773 46 7 WWW h ttp :// www .n m w .ac.ukh te I T E BUSH - 9 JUN 1998 LI BRARY Provisional atlas of the ground beetles (Coleop tera, Carabidae) of B ritain Ma rtin L Luff (Dep a rtm en t of Ag ricultu ral & En viron m en ta l Scien ce, Un iversity of Newcastle up on Ty n e) INSTM ITE OF TERRESTRIAL BUSH ES7ATE PENICINK ECOLOGY MIDLOTHIAN Lii424 5 °16- :9-bra. .1').,(p±) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Natural Environment Research Council Citatio n in fo rm atio n Luff, M L. 1998 . Provisional atlas of tbe g round beetles (Coleop tera, Carabidae) of Britain . Hu ntingd on : Biological Records Centre . COM ENTS I n tr o d u ctio n I Acknowledgements 4 Sy s te m a tic li s t of g ene r a m ap p ed 7 M ap s a nd sp ecie s a c co u n ts 8 R ef e r e n ces 183 I nd ex to m ap s a nd sp ecies a c co u nts 19 1 á IN 7ROD UCTION The Carabidae , or ground beetles, are one of the also be en published (Luff 1981a, b ; Houston & Luff best know n and most popular families of beetles 1983) and a general account of the family, with As presently recognised, they include the tiger keys to common species , is published in the beetles, which were formerly sepa rated into the Naturalists' Handboo k series (Forsythe 1987). Keys Cicindelidae. To date, 350 spe cies have be en to the larvae of individual carabid tribes are being recorded in Britain and Ireland. published (eg Luff 1985) and a volum e covering the larvae of the who le family was published Th is family of beetles is usually one of the first to recently (Luff 1993). There are also larval keys, to be noticed and collected by aspiring coleopterists, species, in Arndt (1991). and the earliest monograph on the British fauna w as by Dawson in 1854. Notes on the distribution Additions, extinctions and revisions of species in Britain were included both in that .Seve n species have been added, by the following volume, and in the standard works by Fowler authors, to the British list since the publication of (1887) and Fowler and Donisthorpe (1913); the the Handbook (Lindroth 1974): Irish species were included in Johnson and Halbert • Bembidion b umerale Sturm (Crossley & Norris (1902). The checklist of the British species was 1975); upd ated by Andrewes (1939) and formed the • As ap bid ion cu n urn (Heyden) and A . stierlin i ba sis for the carabid section of Kloet and Hincks (Heyden) (Speight, Martinez & Luff 1986); (1945); this was amended by Moore (1957a). • Pterostich us rbaeticus Heer (Luff 1990) ; Subsequently, Moore (1957b) published a table of • Ca latbus cin ctus Motschulsky (Aukema 1990; county distributions of each species in England Anderson & Luff 1994); and Wales, based largely on records in the Victoria • M icrolestes tnin utu lus (Goe ze) (Eversham & County History series published around the turn of Collier 1997); th e century. In this paper, Scottish records were • Cymind is rnacula ris (Fischer vo n Waldhe im) simply grouped into four regions, and only (Hammond 1982). presence/ absence was noted from Ireland . Some of these county records have since proved to be A further species, Ag on u m lugen s (Dufischmid), erroneous (Eyre & Luff 1987). An updated has been added from Ireland but is not known in ch ecklist of the Irish Carabidae was given by Britain (Anderson 1985, 1996). I have also seen a Speight, Anderson and Luff (1982), which has now specimen from the Channel Islands. been superseded by a ne w checklist of all Irish Coleoptera (Anderson, Nash & O'Connor, 1997). Some spe cies have not occurred in Britain or Ireland this century, or are apparently now extinct. Identificat ion The following species are not therefore includ ed in Current knowledge of the Carabidae of Britain and this Atlas: Ireland is based on the checklists in Pope (1977) • Bernbidion ca llosu rn Mister; and Speight et al. (1982), and on identification • Tack ys biscu lcatus Nicolai; using primarily the Royal Entomological Society's • T. quad risignatus Du ftschn id; Handbook (Lindroth 1974). Further information on • A ba r p arallelus Duftschmid; the species in the Handbook was given in • Agon um sahlbergi (Chaudott); Lindroth (1972). • D iach rom us germ a n us (L.); • Lebia ma rgin ata (Fourcroy); Since the publication of Lindroth's (1974) • L. scap ula ris (Fourcroy). Handbook, the most useful detailed account of the family is that in the Scandinavian faunal series Brach in us sclopeta (F.). has occurred only once (Lindroth 1985- 86), which gives more detailed this century with certainty, on the English south biological information . However, the coast (Allen 1985) and is also excluded. nomenclature used, following Silfverberg (1977): sometimes differs from that currently accepted in Known introd uctions, such as Carabus au ratus L., Britain. Such differences are mentioned in the text have also be en excluded from this Atlas, but of the relevant species in this Atlas. Critical notes species that have beco me established and have on the identification of some British species have spread widely naturally, such as Leistus Introduction ruf oma tg in atus (Duftschmid) and A ma ra Luff and Ball (1986), Forsythe (1997) and Whitton m ontivaga Sturm, are included . an d Campbell (1991). The species previously known as Pterostich us In the following maps, Recording Scheme data from mg rita is now recognised as co mprising two species 1970 onwards are indicated as M ed circles. Many in this region, namely the true n ig rita (Paykull) and pre-1970 records (indicated by open circles) are the closely related P. rbaeticus He er (Luff 1990). also included, mainly derived from museum As most records were already received before collections and literature records . The maps do not, publication of the distinction between these two however, include records prior to 1900. Many pre- species, a map for n ig rita sens u la to is given, as 1970 records in Hyman and Parsons (1992) refer to well as interim separate map s.