Bare footed heart shield
Nebria salina Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854
Status not recordedbeetles
The bare footed heart shield (Nebria salina) is a species in the family Carabidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1.3 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 12 countries, including Belgium, Denmark and Finland.
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Quick facts about the bare footed heart shield
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 9 mm – 1.3 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 12 countriessrc for Countries on record
How big is the bare footed heart shield?
Where does the bare footed heart shield live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The bare footed heart shield is listed for 12 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: CarabCat (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Is the bare footed heart shield endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the bare footed heart shield classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyCarabidae
- genusNebria
- SpeciesNebria salina Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1854
Synonyms Nebria degenerata, Nebria iberica, Nebria klinckowstroemi, Nebria klinkowstroemi, Nebria obscurata
Other names and names in other languages (3)
- Feld-DammläuferGerman
- HeidekortnekDutch
- alvarnattlöpareSwedish
Relatives of the bare footed heart shield
Other species in the same genus Nebria.
Common heart shield
Nebria brevicollis
Upland heart-shield
Nebria rufescens
The beachcomber
Nebria complanata
Lacustrine gazelle beetle
Nebria lacustris
Pale-legged gazelle beetle
Nebria pallipes
Mann's gazelle beetle
Nebria danmanni
CompareBare footed heart shield vs Common heart shieldBare footed heart shield vs Upland heart-shieldBare footed heart shield vs The beachcomberBare footed heart shield vs Lacustrine gazelle beetle
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the bare footed heart shield?
An adult bare footed heart shield measures 9 mm – 1.3 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the bare footed heart shield live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the bare footed heart shield for 12 countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the bare footed heart shield?
The bare footed heart shield (Nebria salina) belongs to the family Carabidae in the order Coleoptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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