List of ground beetle (Carabidae) species recorded in Britain

The following is a list of the ground beetles recorded in Britain, organised by subfamily (-inae endings) and by tribe (-ini endings). For other beetle families, see the main list of beetle species recorded in Britain.

Cicindelinae Latreille, 1802

 * Cicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758
 * Cicindela hybrida Linnaeus, 1758
 * Cicindela maritima Latreille & Dejean, 1822
 * Cicindela sylvatica Linnaeus, 1758
 * Cylindera germanica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Brachininae Bonelli, 1810

 * Brachinus crepitans (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Brachinus sclopeta (Fabricius, 1792)

Omophroninae Bonelli, 1810

 * Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777)

Carabinae Latreille, 1802

 * Carabini Latreille, 1802
 * Calosoma inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Calosoma sycophanta (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Carabus clatratus Linnaeus, 1761
 * Carabus arvensis Herbst, 1784
 * Carabus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758
 * Carabus monilis Fabricius, 1792
 * Carabus nemoralis O. F. Müller, 1764
 * Carabus auratus Linnaeus, 1761
 * Carabus nitens Linnaeus, 1758
 * Carabus glabratus Paykull, 1790
 * Carabus problematicus Herbst, 1786
 * Carabus intricatus Linnaeus, 1761
 * Carabus violaceus Linnaeus, 1758
 * Cychrus caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Nebriini Laporte, 1834
 * Leistus montanus Stephens, 1827
 * Leistus rufomarginatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Leistus spinibarbis (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Leistus fulvibarbis Dejean, 1826
 * Leistus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Leistus terminatus (Hellwig in Panzer, 1793)
 * Nebria livida (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Nebria salina Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854
 * Nebria nivalis (Paykull, 1790)
 * Nebria rufescens (Ström, 1768)
 * Eurynebria complanata (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Pelophila borealis (Paykull, 1790)
 * Notiophilini Motschulsky, 1850
 * Notiophilus aesthuans Motschulsky, 1864
 * Notiophilus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Notiophilus biguttatus (Fabricius, 1779)
 * Notiophilus germinyi Fauvel, 1863
 * Notiophilus palustris (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Notiophilus quadripunctatus Dejean, 1826
 * Notiophilus rufipes Curtis, 1829
 * Notiophilus substriatus G. R. Waterhouse, 1833
 * Elaphrini Latreille, 1802
 * Blethisa multipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Elaphrus cupreus Duftschmid, 1812
 * Elaphrus lapponicus Gyllenhal, 1810
 * Elaphrus uliginosus Fabricius, 1792
 * Elaphrus riparius (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Loricerini Bonelli, 1810
 * Loricera pilicornis (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Clivina collaris (Herbst, 1784)
 * Clivina fossor (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Dyschirius angustatus (Ahrens, 1830)
 * Dyschirius obscurus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 * Dyschirius thoracicus (Rossi, 1790)
 * Dyschirius aeneus (Dejean, 1825)
 * Dyschirius extensus Putzeys, 1846
 * Dyschirius globosus (Herbst, 1784)
 * Dyschirius impunctipennis Dawson, 1854
 * Dyschirius luedersi Wagner, 1915
 * Dyschirius nitidus (Dejean, 1825)
 * Dyschirius politus (Dejean, 1825)
 * Dyschirius salinus Schaum, 1843
 * Broscini Hope, 1838
 * Broscus cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Miscodera arctica (Paykull, 1798)
 * Trechini Bonelli, 1810
 * Perileptus areolatus (Creutzer, 1799)
 * Aepus marinus (Ström, 1783)
 * Aepus robinii (Laboulbène, 1849)
 * Trechus rivularis (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Trechus secalis (Paykull, 1790)
 * Trechus fulvus Dejean, 1831
 * Trechus obtusus Erichson, 1837
 * Trechus quadristriatus (Schrank, 1781)
 * Trechus rubens (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Trechus subnotatus Dejean, 1831
 * Thalassophilus longicornis (Sturm, 1825)
 * Blemus discus (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Trechoblemus micros (Herbst, 1784)
 * Tachys bistriatus (Duftschmid, 1812) ?
 * Tachys micros (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828)
 * Tachys obtusiusculus (Jeannel, 1941)
 * Tachys scutellaris Stephens, 1828
 * Elaphropus parvulus (Dejean, 1831)
 * Elaphropus walkerianus (Sharp, 1913)
 * Asaphidion curtum (Heyden, 1870)
 * Asaphidion flavipes (Linnaeus, 1761)
 * Asaphidion pallipes (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Asaphidion stierlini (Heyden, 1880)
 * Ocys harpaloides (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
 * Ocys quinquestriatus (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Cillenus lateralis Samouelle, 1819
 * Bracteon argenteolum (Ahrens, 1812)
 * Bracteon litorale (Olivier, 1790)
 * Bembidion nigricorne Gyllenhal, 1827
 * Bembidion lampros (Herbst, 1784)
 * Bembidion properans (Stephens, 1828)
 * Bembidion punctulatum Drapiez, 1821
 * Bembidion pallidipenne (Illiger, 1802)
 * Bembidion bipunctatum (Linnaeus, 1761)
 * Bembidion dentellum (Thunberg, 1787)
 * Bembidion obliquum Sturm, 1825
 * Bembidion semipunctatum (Donovan, 1806)
 * Bembidion varium (Olivier, 1795)
 * Bembidion ephippium (Marsham, 1802)
 * Bembidion prasinum (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Bembidion virens Gyllenhal, 1827
 * Bembidion atrocaeruleum (Stephens, 1828)
 * Bembidion caeruleum Audinet-Serville, 1826
 * Bembidion geniculatum Heer, 1837/8
 * Bembidion tibiale (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Bembidion bruxellense Wesmael, 1835
 * Bembidion bualei Jacquelin du Val, 1852
 * Bembidion decorum (Zenker in Panzer, 1800)
 * Bembidion deletum Audinet-Serville, 1821
 * Bembidion femoratum Sturm, 1825
 * Bembidion fluviatile Dejean, 1831
 * Bembidion lunatum (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Bembidion maritimum (Stephens, 1835)
 * Bembidion monticola Sturm, 1825
 * Bembidion saxatile Gyllenhal, 1827
 * Bembidion stephensii Crotch, 1866
 * Bembidion testaceum (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Bembidion tetracolum Say, 1825
 * Bembidion illigeri Netolitzky, 1914
 * Bembidion stomoides Dejean, 1831
 * Bembidion inustum Jacquelin du Val, 1857
 * Bembidion nigropiceum (Marsham, 1802)
 * Bembidion gilvipes Sturm, 1825
 * Bembidion schuppelii Dejean, 1831
 * Bembidion assimile Gyllenhal, 1810
 * Bembidion clarkii (Dawson, 1849)
 * Bembidion fumigatum (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Bembidion minimum (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Bembidion normannum Dejean, 1831
 * Bembidion humerale Sturm, 1825
 * Bembidion quadrimaculatum (Linnaeus, 1761)
 * Bembidion quadripustulatum Audinet-Serville, 1821
 * Bembidion doris (Panzer, 1796)
 * Bembidion articulatum (Panzer, 1795)
 * Bembidion octomaculatum (Goeze, 1777)
 * Bembidion obtusum Audinet-Serville, 1821
 * Bembidion aeneum Germar, 1824
 * Bembidion biguttatum (Fabricius, 1779)
 * Bembidion guttula (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Bembidion iricolor Bedel, 1879
 * Bembidion lunulatum (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
 * Bembidion mannerheimii C. R. Sahlberg, 1827
 * Pogonus chalceus (Marsham, 1802)
 * Pogonus littoralis (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Pogonus luridipennis (Germar, 1822)
 * Patrobini Kirby, 1837
 * Patrobus assimilis Chaudoir, 1844
 * Patrobus atrorufus (Ström, 1768)
 * Patrobus septentrionis Dejean, 1828
 * Pterostichini Bonelli, 1810
 * Stomis pumicatus (Panzer, 1795)
 * Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Poecilus kugelanni (Panzer, 1797)
 * Poecilus lepidus (Leske, 1785)
 * Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824)
 * Pterostichus cristatus (Dufour, 1820)
 * Pterostichus aethiops (Panzer, 1796)
 * Pterostichus madidus (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Pterostichus longicollis (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Pterostichus aterrimus (Herbst, 1784)
 * Pterostichus macer (Marsham, 1802)
 * Pterostichus niger (Schaller, 1783)
 * Pterostichus adstrictus Eschscholtz, 1823
 * Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
 * Pterostichus quadrifoveolatus Letzner, 1852
 * Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger, 1798)
 * Pterostichus anthracinus (Panzer, 1795)
 * Pterostichus gracilis (Dejean, 1828)
 * Pterostichus minor (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 * Pterostichus nigrita (Paykull, 1790)
 * Pterostichus rhaeticus Heer, 1837/8
 * Pterostichus vernalis (Panzer, 1795)
 * Pterostichus diligens (Sturm, 1824)
 * Pterostichus strenuus (Panzer, 1796)
 * Abax parallelepipedus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)
 * Abax parallelus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Sphodrini Laporte, 1834
 * Platyderus depressus (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
 * Synuchus vivalis (Illiger, 1798)
 * Calathus rotundicollis Dejean, 1828
 * Calathus ambiguus (Paykull, 1790)
 * Calathus cinctus Motschulsky, 1850
 * Calathus erratus (C. R. Sahlberg, 1827)
 * Calathus fuscipes (Goeze, 1777)
 * Calathus melanocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Calathus micropterus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Calathus mollis (Marsham, 1802)
 * Sphodrus leucophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Laemostenus complanatus (Dejean, 1828)
 * Laemostenus terricola (Herbst, 1784)
 * Olisthopus rotundatus (Paykull, 1790)
 * Oxypselaphus obscurus (Herbst, 1784) ?
 * Paranchus albipes (Fabricius, 1796)
 * Anchomenus dorsalis (Pontoppidan, 1763)
 * Platynus assimilis (Paykull, 1790) ?
 * Batenus livens (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Sericoda quadripunctata (De Geer, 1774)
 * Agonum fuliginosum (Panzer, 1809)
 * Agonum gracile Sturm, 1824
 * Agonum micans Nicolai, 1822
 * Agonum piceum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Agonum scitulum Dejean, 1828
 * Agonum thoreyi Dejean, 1828
 * Agonum chalconotum Ménétriés, 1832
 * Agonum emarginatum (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 * Agonum ericeti (Panzer, 1809)
 * Agonum gracilipes (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Agonum lugens (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Agonum marginatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Agonum muelleri (Herbst, 1784)
 * Agonum nigrum Dejean, 1828
 * Agonum sexpunctatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Agonum versutum Sturm, 1824
 * Agonum viduum (Panzer, 1796)
 * Zabrus tenebrioides (Goeze, 1777)
 * Amara plebeja (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Amara strenua Zimmermann, 1832
 * Amara aenea (De Geer, 1774)
 * Amara anthobia Villa & Villa, 1833
 * Amara communis (Panzer, 1797)
 * Amara convexior Stephens, 1828
 * Amara curta Dejean, 1828
 * Amara eurynota (Panzer, 1796)
 * Amara famelica Zimmermann, 1832
 * Amara familiaris (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Amara lucida (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Amara lunicollis Schiødte, 1837
 * Amara montivaga Sturm, 1825
 * Amara nitida Sturm, 1825
 * Amara ovata (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Amara similata (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Amara spreta Dejean, 1831
 * Amara tibialis (Paykull, 1798)
 * Amara bifrons (Gyllenhal, 1810)
 * Amara cursitans (Zimmermann, 1832)
 * Amara fusca Dejean, 1828
 * Amara infima (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Amara praetermissa (C. R. Sahlberg, 1827)
 * Amara quenseli (Schönherr, 1806)
 * Amara apricaria (Paykull, 1790)
 * Amara consularis (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Amara fulva (O. F. Müller, 1776)
 * Amara equestris (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Curtonotus alpinus (Paykull, 1790)
 * Curtonotus aulicus (Panzer, 1796)
 * Curtonotus convexiusculus (Marsham, 1802)
 * Harpalini Bonelli, 1810
 * Harpalus calceatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus griseus (Panzer, 1797)
 * Harpalus rufipes (De Geer, 1774)
 * Harpalus affinis (Schrank, 1781)
 * Harpalus anxius (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus attenuatus Stephens, 1828
 * Harpalus cupreus Dejean, 1829
 * Harpalus dimidiatus (Rossi, 1790)
 * Harpalus froelichii Sturm, 1818
 * Harpalus honestus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus laevipes Zetterstedt, 1828
 * Harpalus latus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Harpalus neglectus Audinet-Serville, 1821
 * Harpalus pumilus Sturm, 1818
 * Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus rufipalpis Sturm, 1818
 * Harpalus serripes (Quensel in Schönherr, 1806)
 * Harpalus servus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus smaragdinus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Harpalus tardus (Panzer, 1796)
 * Harpalus melancholicus Dejean, 1829
 * Harpalus tenebrosus Dejean, 1829
 * Ophonus ardosiacus Lutshnik, 1922
 * Ophonus azureus (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Ophonus sabulicola (Panzer, 1796)
 * Ophonus stictus Stephens, 1828
 * Ophonus cordatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Ophonus laticollis Mannerheim, 1825
 * Ophonus melletii (Heer, 1837/8)
 * Ophonus parallelus (Dejean, 1829)
 * Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828
 * Ophonus puncticollis (Paykull, 1798)
 * Ophonus rufibarbis (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Ophonus rupicola (Sturm, 1818)
 * Ophonus schaubergerianus (Puel, 1937)
 * Ophonus subsinuatus Rey, 1886
 * Anisodactylus binotatus (Fabricius, 1787)
 * Anisodactylus nemorivagus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Anisodactylus poeciloides (Stephens, 1828)
 * Diachromus germanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Scybalicus oblongiusculus (Dejean, 1829)
 * Dicheirotrichus gustavii Crotch, 1871
 * Dicheirotrichus obsoletus (Dejean, 1829)
 * Trichocellus cognatus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 * Trichocellus placidus (Gyllenhal, 1827)
 * Bradycellus caucasicus (Chaudoir, 1846)
 * Bradycellus csikii Laczó, 1912
 * Bradycellus distinctus (Dejean, 1829)
 * Bradycellus harpalinus (Audinet-Serville, 1821)
 * Bradycellus ruficollis (Stephens, 1828)
 * Bradycellus sharpi Joy, 1912
 * Bradycellus verbasci (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Stenolophus comma (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Stenolophus mixtus (Herbst, 1784)
 * Stenolophus skrimshiranus Stephens, 1828
 * Stenolophus teutonus (Schrank, 1781)
 * Acupalpus brunnipes (Sturm, 1825)
 * Acupalpus dubius Schilsky, 1888
 * Acupalpus elegans (Dejean, 1829)
 * Acupalpus exiguus Dejean, 1829
 * Acupalpus flavicollis (Sturm, 1825)
 * Acupalpus maculatus (Schaum, 1860)
 * Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1761)
 * Acupalpus parvulus (Sturm, 1825)
 * Anthracus consputus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Chlaenius nigricornis (Fabricius, 1787)
 * Chlaenius nitidulus (Schrank, 1781)
 * Chlaenius tristis (Schaller, 1783)
 * Chlaenius vestitus (Paykull, 1790)
 * Callistus lunatus (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Oodini LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851
 * Oodes helopioides (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Licinini Bonelli, 1810
 * Licinus depressus (Paykull, 1790)
 * Licinus punctatulus (Fabricius, 1792)
 * Badister bullatus (Schrank, 1798)
 * Badister meridionalis Puel, 1925
 * Badister unipustulatus Bonelli, 1813
 * Badister sodalis (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Badister collaris Motschulsky, 1844
 * Badister dilatatus Chaudoir, 1837
 * Badister peltatus (Panzer, 1797)
 * Panagaeini Bonelli, 1810
 * Panagaeus bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1775)
 * Panagaeus cruxmajor (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Perigonini Horn, 1881
 * Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)
 * Masoreini Chaudoir, 1870
 * Masoreus wetterhallii (Gyllenhal, 1813)
 * Lebia chlorocephala (J. Hoffmann, 1803)
 * Lebia cyanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Lebia cruxminor (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Lebia marginata (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
 * Lebia scapularis (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
 * Demetrias imperialis (Germar, 1824)
 * Demetrias atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Demetrias monostigma Samouelle, 1819
 * Cymindis axillaris (Fabricius, 1794)
 * Cymindis macularis Mannerheim in Fischer von Waldheim, 1824
 * Cymindis vaporariorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Paradromius linearis (Olivier, 1795)
 * Paradromius longiceps (Dejean, 1826)
 * Dromius agilis (Fabricius, 1787)
 * Dromius angustus Brullé, 1834
 * Dromius meridionalis Dejean, 1825
 * Dromius quadrimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Calodromius spilotus (Illiger, 1798)
 * Philorhizus melanocephalus (Dejean, 1825)
 * Philorhizus notatus (Stephens, 1827)
 * Philorhizus quadrisignatus (Dejean, 1825)
 * Philorhizus sigma (Rossi, 1790)
 * Philorhizus vectensis (Rye, 1873)
 * Microlestes maurus (Sturm, 1827)
 * Microlestes minutulus (Goeze, 1777)
 * Lionychus quadrillum (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Syntomus foveatus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)
 * Syntomus obscuroguttatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
 * Syntomus truncatellus (Linnaeus, 1761)
 * Odacanthini Laporte, 1834
 * Odacantha melanura (Linnaeus, 1767)
 * Dryptini Schaum, 1857
 * Drypta dentata (Rossi, 1790)
 * Polistichus connexus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)