Lathrobium brunnipes
Length around 10 mm. A very dark almost black rove beetle with orangey coloured legs.
They generally inhabit leaf litter and other decaying matter.
All year round but especially late spring to autumn.
Quite common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 321 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
AJ Cann
Martinshaw Wood
01 April 2016
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
12 March 2011
Mark Skevington
Narborough Bog
02 May 2012
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Staphylinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 02/05/1995 (Derek Lott)
- Last record:
- 17/04/2019 (Calow, Graham)
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