Tachys micros
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: | Tachys micros |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828) |
| 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: | A habitat specialist confined to south-facing soft-rock cliffs on the south coast of England and a single site in north Wales. There are numerous post-1980 records from a 10km stretch of coastline west of Lyme Regis in Devon to the cliffs east of Eype’s Mouth in Dorset. The species is also known from Fairlight Glen undercliffs, east of Hastings in Sussex, but has not been reported there since 1974. There is no evidence of a decline in the main Devon/Dorset stronghold and the species seems unlikely to be present at the Sussex site, which has received recent invertebrate survey effort. VU but thought to be stable and not subject to threats, so could do with re-assessment. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | Yes |
| Justification: | Needs re-assessment to guide justification for future actions, and capacity building for surveyors would be beneficial |
| 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.