Bembidion coeruleum
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Ground beetle |
| Red List Status: | Vulnerable (Not Relevant) [VU(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: | Bembidion coeruleum |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | Audinet-Serville, 1821 |
| 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: | Confined to England, but unrecorded before 1989 and presumably a recent arrival. Thought to have colonised Britain naturally, but it is unclear whether the species is genuinely native. Known only from Dungeness and not recorded there since 2009, despite considerable subsequent survey effort. Only a few specimens were recorded, suggesting that it is a species that occurs at low density and that it was only ever poorly established in Britain. On this basis it is not a suitable candidate for any recovery actions. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | No |
| Justification: | Confined to England, but unrecorded before 1989 and presumably a recent arrival. Thought to have colonised Britain naturally, but it is unclear whether the species is genuinely native. Known only from Dungeness and not recorded there since 2009, despite considerable subsequent survey effort. Only a few specimens were recorded, suggesting that it is a species that occurs at low density and that it was only ever poorly established in Britain. On this basis it is not a suitable candidate for any recovery actions. |
| 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
No Key Actions Defined
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.