Pseudovadonia livida
A small (5 to 9 mm) and robust species.
Might be mistaken for Alosterna, especially as they may occur together in the field, but Pseudovadonia livida is broader and has extensively dark legs.
Good close up photographs required please.
Frequents open and sunny situations such as meadows and pasture, roadsides, arable land, parkland and wooded margins etc. visiting a range of flowers to feed on pollen and nectar; mostly buttercups, umbels, yarrow, ox-eye daisy and blackberry but also many others.
Adults occur from May until August.
Generally common across southern England north to the Wash though absent from most of Wales and only very rarely found further north.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Tim Sexton
Rutland Water Nature Reserve
30 May 2022
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Cerambycidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 30/05/2022 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 23/06/2024 (Cann, Alan)
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