Ocypus brunnipes
A large dark brown or blackish rove beetle with orange legs. It can measure up to 13 mm or more.
Various habitats including damp but well drained soils, in woods and under stones.
All year but mainly March to October.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent but sometimes local in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 53 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
David Nicholls
Cranoe
23 March 2021
Graham Calow
Sapcote
08 May 2013
specimen examined
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
20 March 2020
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
20 March 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Staphylinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 01/05/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 23/03/2021 (Nicholls, David)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
08 May 2013
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote
08 May 2013
specimen examined
