Rhaphium appendiculatum
One of many Rhaphium species with enlarged 3rd antennal segment. In R. appendiculatum, the arista is very short - no longer than one eighth the length of the third segment. The genital lamella is long and ribbon-like.
Rhaphium caliginosum has a longer arista, over half the length of the 3rd segment.
Fenlands, humid grassland, humid coniferous woodland
April to September, peaking in June.
Common in England and Wales. More scattered distribution in Scotland.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known. Probably under-recorded.
Ian Harding
Sheet Hedges Wood
21 April 2024
Mike Higgott
Anstey, North Wood 2
15 May 2023
David Nicholls
Coalville, Nature Alive
19 April 2024
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- 15/05/2023 (Higgott, Mike)
- Last record:
- 21/04/2024 (Harding, Ian)
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