Anthobium unicolor
3-3.5mm. Generally all yellow-brown and heavily punctured throughout.
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In or near to woodland, where it is often encountered in leaf litter.
Although it may be found in any month, it seems to be most frequent from October to May.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were approximately 122 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
AJ Cann
Stoughton
16 February 2019
David Nicholls
Ratby playground
14 February 2024
David Nicholls
Sheet Hedges Wood, east
17 February 2023
Mark Skevington
Altar Stones
11 March 2020
David Nicholls
Ratby playground
14 February 2024
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Staphylinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 01/05/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 14/02/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Ratby playground
14 February 2024
