A tiny species measuring just 1.4mm - 1.5mm in length. Typically, this
is a beetle of heat providing manure and compost heaps etc, with a
south-easterly UK distribution. There seem to be just two other recent
Nottinghamshire records, from Nottingham Trent University's
Brackenhurst Campus on October 8th 2016 (Heeney, W.)
from Stoke Bardolph on April 11th 2020
(Dutton, A.) and the one photographed below, one of many found
present in a long-standing manure heap at Church Warsop on April 6th and
10th 2020. |