Myrmechixenus subterraneus
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Darkling beetle or ally |
| Red List Status: | Regionally Extinct (GB scale) (Not Relevant) [RE(nr)] |
| D5 Status: | Included in the baseline Red List Index for England (Wilkins, Wilson & Brown, 2022) |
| Section 41 Status: | (not listed) |
| Taxa Included Synonym: | (none) |
| UKSI Recommended Name: | Myrmechixenus subterraneus |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | Chevrolat, 1835 |
| UKSI Recommended Qualifier: | (none specified) |
| Red List Citation: | Alexander et al., 2014 |
| Notes on taxonomy/listing: | (none) |
Criteria
| Question 1: | Does species need conservation or recovery in England? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Presumed extinct |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Confined to England, the latest status review (2016) reported A. waltlii from just a single site in the Suffolk breckland, where it was discovered in 2011 following a long period without records during which it was thought to be extinct in Britain. Since then, it has been found at other sites in the Norfolk and Suffolk breck and has spread more widely to sites in north Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. A. waltlii is strongly associated with Erodium growing in early-successional habitats on dry sandy soils and at a landscape scale, is a species that would benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase early successional habitat mosaics. Given this apparent recent range expansion, the species does not seem a suitable candidate for recovery actions at the current time. |
| Question 3: | At a landscape scale, would the species benefit from untargeted habitat management to increase habitat mosaics, structural diversity, or particular successional stages? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | This species would not benefit from untargeted management |
Species Assessment
Not relevant as no Key Actions defined.
Key Actions
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Acknowledgment:
Data used on this website are adapted from Threatened species recovery actions 2025 baseline (JP065): Technical report and spreadsheet user guide (Natural England, 2025). Available here.