Acupalpus elegans
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Ground beetle |
| Red List Status: | Critically Endangered/Possibly Extinct (Not Relevant) [CR(PE)(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: | Acupalpus elegans |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Dejean, 1829) |
| UKSI Recommended Qualifier: | (none specified) |
| Red List Citation: | Telfer, 2016 |
| Notes on taxonomy/listing: | (none) |
Criteria
| Question 1: | Does species need conservation or recovery in England? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Only known from the Kent coast on the Isle of Sheppey, Isle of Grain and at Deal; all records are historic and span the period 1853 to 1952. The final British record was from the Isle of Grain. It is a habitat specialist favouring the margins of brackish and saline lagoons, a habitat which has received considerable survey effort since the addition of Anisodactylus poeciloides to the Section 41 list in 1994. On this basis the species is very likely to be extinct in Britain and is not a suitable candidate for recovery action. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Only known from the Kent coast on the Isle of Sheppey, Isle of Grain and at Deal; all records are historic and span the period 1853 to 1952. The final British record was from the Isle of Grain. It is a habitat specialist favouring the margins of brackish and saline lagoons, a habitat which has received considerable survey effort since the addition of Anisodactylus poeciloides to the Section 41 list in 1994. On this basis the species is very likely to be extinct in Britain and is not a suitable candidate for recovery action. |
| 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: | N/A |
| Justification: |
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.