Bledius furcatus
Key Details
| Taxonomic Groups: | Invertebrate > insect - beetle (Coleoptera) > Rove beetle (macrostaph) |
| 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: | Bledius furcatus |
| UKSI Recommended Authority: | (Olivier, 1811) |
| UKSI Recommended Qualifier: | (none specified) |
| Red List Citation: | Boyce, 2022 |
| Notes on taxonomy/listing: | (none) |
Criteria
| Question 1: | Does species need conservation or recovery in England? |
| Response: | Yes |
| Justification: | Species believed to be extinct in UK but two records at moth traps suggest immigration possible from continent. Last definite breeding populations. were found in the early years of the twentieth century from flat sand and mud on saltmarsh on the north Norfolk coast at Wells-next-the-Sea and Holkham (vc28, West Norfolk) and there are also nineteenth century sites near Ipswich, East Suffolk (vc25). There is also a recent NBN record from an inland site in south-west Yorkshire (vc63), which requires confirmation given the known habitat requirements. |
| Question 2: | Does recovery/ conservation depend on species-specific actions? |
| Response: | Yes |
| Justification: | Current status unknown. Targeted survey required. |
| 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: | Likely to be extinct in UK. |
Species Assessment
| Current step on the Species Recovery Curve (SRC): | 2. Biological status assessment exists |
| Recovery potential/expectation: | Low - Combination or other (detail in comments) |
| National Monitoring Resource: | Opportunistic - insufficient |
| Species Comments: | Likely to be extinct in UK. |
Key Actions
Key Action 1
Proposed Action: Targeted survey of past sites on the Norfolk coast, potentially suitable sites in the south-east (e.g. Kent and Sussex where apparent migrants from the continent have been caught) and the apparent recent inland site in south-west Yorkshire to confirm the status of this species in the England.
Action targets: 2. Biological status assessment exists
Action type: Status survey/review
Duration: 2 years
Scale of Implementation: ≤ 50 sites
High priority sites:
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.