Dicheirotrichus gustavii

Dicheirotrichus gustavii is a ground beetle which emerges from cracks or holes to feed on tidal salt marshes after dusk. Despite living in a coastal environment, it has no cycle of behaviour linked to the tides, simply scurrying for dry land when caught by the approaching sea.^[1] It will eat the larvae of another intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, if they are left unprotected by the adult.^[2]

Dicheirotrichus gustavii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Harpalinae
Tribe:	Harpalini
Genus:	Dicheirotrichus
Species:	D. gustavii
Binomial name
Dicheirotrichus gustavii Crotch, 1871