About Notiophilus biguttatus (Fabricius, 1779)
Notiophilus biguttatus, commonly called the spotted big-eyed beetle and sometimes referred to as the common springtail stalker, is a species of ground beetle native to the Palearctic realm. It was first formally described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1779. Within Europe, this species has been recorded in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, mainland France, Germany, Great Britain and the Isle of Man, Hungary, Iceland, the Republic of Ireland, mainland Italy, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Northern Ireland, North Macedonia, mainland Norway, Poland, mainland Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, mainland Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. It has been introduced to North America, with confirmed Canadian records from Atlantic and Pacific coast provinces: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and British Columbia.
