Anacaena globulus
2.5 to 3.5mm. Strongly convex above, shape broadly oval and colouration dark, almost black with contrasting pale pronotal and elytral margins. Distinguished from our other species by the form of the mesosternum; the sharply-declined part in front of the coxae is at most slightly raised medially but lacks any transverse or longitudinal keels.
Other Anacaena species.
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Wetland habitats.
All year, but mainly encountered from mid-April to November.
Common and widespread in Britain.
Common and widespread in Leicestershire and Rutland.
AJ Cann
Sandhills Lodge, Stinking Wood
25 June 2020
AJ Cann
Sandhills Lodge, Stinking Wood
25 June 2020
Hind femora
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Hydrophilidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 25/06/1979 (Don Goddard)
- Last record:
- 25/06/2020 (Cann, Alan)
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