Bembidion sublimbatum (Wollaston, 1877:12)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Bembidium sublimbatus Wollaston, 1877:12 (basionym); Pseudophilochthus sublimatus (Wollaston, 1877); Bembidion sublimbatus (Wollaston, 1877:12)
Conservation Status
Missing (Oldfield et al., 1999:107; Maddison et al., 2020; Fowler et al., 2025)
Last record: 1884-1886 (Maddison et al., 2020; Fowler et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
"Pseudophilochthus sublimatus (CR/EX): a species of endemic groundbeetle, it was recorded from the High Central Ridge in an area which has subsequently eroded."
(Oldfield et al., 1999:107)
Distribution & Habitat
High Central Ridge, St Helena
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 sublimbatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T68453289A68453293. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T68453289A68453293.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
Oldfield, S. (compiler), Procter, D. (editor) and Fleming, L. V. (editor). (1999). Biodiversity: the UK Overseas Territories. Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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