Acupalpus flavicollis
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Ground beetle |
| Red List Status: | Near Threatened (Not Relevant) [NT(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 flavicollis |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Sturm, 1825) |
| 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: | Yes |
| Justification: | Restricted to southern and central England. Rare, very localised and declining. Associated with habitats which are potentially vulnerable to climate change effects. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | Yes |
| Justification: | A declining habitat-specialist species which is very localised and occupies relatively small and relatively isolated habitat patches which could expose it to an increased extinction risk. Unlikely to benefit from wider measures due to potential poor dispersal and specific habitat requirements. Requires targeted management and site protection. |
| 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
| Current step on the Species Recovery Curve (SRC): | 7. Best approach adopted at appropriate scales |
| Recovery potential/expectation: | Low - Climate change |
| National Monitoring Resource: | Opportunistic - insufficient |
| Species Comments: | This species is associated with small and isolated habitat patches with damp or wet conditions on both sandy or stony soils near water and also on lowland bogs. It is at risk from extreme summer droughts, as well as increased flash flooding and habitat scour. |
Key Actions
Key Action 1
Proposed Action: Review historical and current management at existing locations and undertake literature reviews to characterise the range of micro-habitats within which it is found. The reviews should help identify the management requirements of optimal coastal and wet bog habitats, particularly their hydrology and proximity to water, and identify the pressures from climate change (e.g. increased temperatures and drought inland and changes to coastal dynamic processes affecting soft rock cliffs) and how they might be mitigated by use of drainage control measures and managing/restoring coastal processes.
Action targets: 4. Autecology and pressures understood
Action type: Scientific research
Duration: 2 years
Scale of Implementation: ≤ 10 sites
High priority sites: In the last two decades the most important sites include coastal cliff locations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Many older records are located in the New Forest
Comments: Actions 1 and 2 are related.
Key Action 2
Proposed Action: Depending on the results of the autecological study and site management reviews, undertake water management measures to maintain or improve existing wet bog/fenland habitat at known locations in the New Forest, particularly relating to soil hydrology and proximity to good quality fresh water. It might also be necessary to change grazing regimes to maintain or restore suitable sward conditions and availability of bare peat.
Action targets: 7. Best approach adopted at appropriate scales
Action type: Habitat management
Duration: >10 years
Scale of Implementation: ≤ 10 sites
High priority sites: Coastal cliff locations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Comments:
Key Action 3
Proposed Action: Depending on the results of the autecological study and site management reviews, manage coastal sites so that soft rock cliffs are exposed to dynamic coastal processes which will help maintain suitably open habitats; this is likely to require introducing beach recharge measures along with some removal of scrub and dense vegetation.
Action targets: 7. Best approach adopted at appropriate scales
Action type: Habitat management
Duration: >10 years
Scale of Implementation: ≤ 10 sites
High priority sites: Coastal cliff locations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Comments:
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.