For many
years, this tiny beetle was only known from the UK on the
basis of records from Sherwood Forest in 1907. Originally
an American species, it wasnt seen anywhere in the
UK again until 1982 when it turned up in Leicestershire,
followed by records from Norfolk in 2003 and 2007, when
it was also found in Cambridgeshire. The one photographed
below, was found on the underside of a cut log, near the
former Sherwood Forest visitor centre in October 2018,
coming well over a century since previous Sherwood
records. |