Omophron limbatum

Omophron limbatum, the spangled button beetle, is a species of beetle of the Carabidae family. This species is found in Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan and Russia.^[1] Its habitat consists of the sandy margins of fresh water.

Omophron limbatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Omophron
Species:	O. limbatum
Binomial name
Omophron limbatum (Fabricius, 1777)
Synonyms
Carabus limbatus Fabricius, 1777 Omophron kraussei Csiki, 1927 Omophron confluens Chobaut, 1923 Omophron solskyi Zaitzev, 1916 Omophron baenningeri Krausse, 1915 Omophron sokolari Roubal, 1910 Omophron corcyreum J.Sahlberg, 1903 Epactius maculatipennis Pic, 1901 Omophron kanalense Fauvel, 1882 Omophron disjunctum Dalla Torre, 1877 Nitidula coccinelloides Petagna, 1819 Carabus dubius Herbst, 1779

Adults reach a size of 5-6.5 mm and are pale yellow to brown in colour with metallic green markings.^[2]