Bembidion rufosuffusum Wollaston, 1877
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pseudophilochthus rufosuffusus (Wollaston, 1877)
Conservation Status
Missing (Fowler et al., 2025)
Last record: 1967 (Fowler et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wollaston, T. V. (1877). Coleoptera Sanctae-Helenae. John Van Voorst, London.
Other references:
Basilewsky, P. (1972). Carabidae. In: Basilewsky, P. (Ed.). La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène. Deuxième partie. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Zoologie. 192: 11-84.
Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Key, R., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C.J., Sherwood, D., Sharp, A. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Bembidion rufosuffusum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T68453326A68453329. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T68453326A68453329.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
Maddison, R. D., Sproul, S. J. and Mendel, H. (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.