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BRECKLAND CARABIDS |
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| The open sandy areas are ideal for active predatory beetles like the carabids, and many visitors to Breckland will be familiar with the Common Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris. This species is widespread across Britain and Ireland, occurring on dry heaths and moors where it is active from early spring. Two of the three nationally scarce or Red Data Book listed Cymindis species occur within Breckland. Most of the national records of Cymindis axillaris come from Breckland, while the only records of Cymindis macularis come from Breckland. This latter species was identified from remains found in a Stone Curlew pellet collected near Icklingham in 1980 (Hammond 1982), although a record from Barton Mills made in 1966 has since come to light. More recent records of this species have come from near Thetford. | |||||
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Panagaeus
bipustulatus is a nationally scarce species of dry sandy or
calcareous grassland. This individual was photographed on Barnham Cross
Common near Thetford during April 2003.
Only two species in the genus Panagaeus occur in Europe. The other, P. cruxmajor is a Red Data Book species with only a handful of recent records nationally, none within Breckland. |
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The only post-1970 records of Harpalus froelichi in Britain have come from the Suffolk Brecks and this species has now been found at six or seven Breckland localities. An individual of Bembidion octomaculatum was found in May 1993 in the Stanford Army Training Area, having previously thought to have become extinct in Britain. Several of the carabid species found within Breckland have a national distribution that is predominantly coastal in nature (Luff 1998): Broscus cephalotes, Calathus ambiguus, Harpalus anxius, Harpalus attenuatus and Harpalus servus. The presence of such species on inland sites within Breckland is therefore notable. The only definite site for Amara fusca within Britain is the area between Lakenheath and Brandon, where it occurs along sandy roadsides in association with Breckland Mugwort Artemisia campestris. This species is best found in late summer.
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Click here to access a provisional list of Carabids recorded in Breckland. |
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