Platyderus depressus (Audinet-Serville, 1821) 
A ground beetle with a predominantly south-eastern UK distribution. There are just a handful of Nottinghamshire records, including the one illustrated below, which was found under a old tree stump in grass pasture at Gunthorpe in April 2021. Other VC56 records are known from Gunthorpe in 2004 (Dutton, A.) and Worksop Priory in 2015 (Pendleton, T.A. and Pendleton, D.T.).
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Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Platyderus depressus    
 
 
 
 
The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Adrian Dutton. Trevor and Dilys Pendleton.

You can contribute your own records to help us gain an accurate status of this species in Nottinghamshire. Send an Excel spreadsheet of your records via the 'contact us' link at the top of the homepage.

Updated January 2022

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