Margarinotus purpurascens
Description
4mm. A glossy black beetle with a rounded profile and usually with obscure dark red markings in each elytra.
Similar Species
Several other Histeridae species
Identification difficulty
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)
- 4mm
- With a gular lobe (a downward and forward pointing projection on the underside in front of the front legs)
- No depression on the pronotum
- Elytra with one subhumeral stria (=Margarinotus)
- Pronotum with one marginal stria
- Subhumeral stria runs along most of the elytral length
- Epipleura barely punctured
- Red patch on each elytra
Habitat
Compost and dung.
When to see it
April - September
UK Status
Uncommon.
VC55 Status
Rare.
David Nicholls
Lodge Farm, Hoby
04 July 2024
nb. head missing!
David Nicholls
Lodge Farm, Hoby
04 July 2024
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Species profile
- Species group:
- insect - beetle (Coleoptera)
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Histeridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 04/07/2024 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 04/07/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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