Bembidion fossor Wollaston, 1877:17
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Bembidium fossor Wollaston, 1877:17; Pseudophilochthus fossor (Wollaston, 1877)
Conservation Status
Missing (Maddison et al., 2020; Fowler et al., 2025)
Last record: 1875 (Fowler et al., 2025); 1875-1876 (Maddison et al., 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
St. Helena
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: "copyright The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, some rights reserved, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Scale bars: 1 mm." (Maddison et al., 2020)
References
Original scientific description:
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. (1877). Coleoptera Sancta-Helenae. London: John van Voorst.
Other references:
Basilewsky, P. (1972). La faune terrestre de l’Île de Sainte-Hélène (deuxième partie). II. – Insectes. 9. Coleoptera. 1. Fam. Carabidae. Annales du Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale 8: 11–84.
Basilewsky, P. (1985). The South Atlantic island of Saint Helena and the origin of its beetle fauna, pp. 257-275. In: Ball, G. E. (ed.). Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of beetles and ants. A volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr. (1904–1983). Dordrecht, Boston and Lancaster: Dr W. Junk.
Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Key, R., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C. J., Sherwood, D., Sharp, A. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Bembidion fossor. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T68453335A68453339. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T68453335A68453339.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
Maddison, David R., Sproul, John S. and Mendel, Howard. (2020). Origin and adaptive radiation of the exceptional and threatened bembidiine beetle fauna of St Helena (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(4): 1155-1175. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz150