Cortinicara gibbosa
This is a minute scavenger beetle which is only 2 mm or less in length and has pitted brown elytra.
Although it probably develops in decaying plant matter, it can also often be beaten in great numbers from Hawthorn flowers etc.
All year round, but most frequent in late spring and summer.
Common and widespread in England and Wales, fewer records from Scotland.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 185 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
14 September 2017
image by Graham Finch
AJ Cann
Skeffington Wood
01 April 2018
AJ Cann
Skeffington Wood
01 April 2018
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Latridiidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 21
- First record:
- 30/09/1987 (Derek Lott)
- Last record:
- 18/11/2024 (Isabel Raval)
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AJ Cann
Skeffington Wood
01 April 2018
David Nicholls
Groby Pool
07 February 2023
