Sphaeriestes castaneus

*Sphaeriestes castaneus* (Panzer, 1796)
Very much confined to the Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park areas of Nottinghamshire, Sphaeriestes castaneus is a small species which is typically found on the dead or dying branches of a range of conifers, which sums up accurately the habitat in which the beetle illustrated in the photographs was found, when beaten off a fallen Corsican Pine Pinus nigra at Gibraltar Plantation in late May 2021.
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The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - M L Denton (2002 Sherwood Forest Coleoptera survey). Stuart Warrington. The National Trust (Clumber Park invertebrate records). Trevor and Dilys Pendleton.

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Updated January 2022