Agriotes acuminatus (Stephens, 1830) 
One of the less common Click Beetles in Nottinghamshire, with a distribution centred around the Sherwood Forest area and several sites east of there. There seems to be a single, isolated Agriotes acuminatus record from Bunny Old Wood in the south of the county, but there may be an element of under-recording by less experienced entomologists, as identification is not entirely straight forward, although it can be done from good quality photographs.
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Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Agriotes acuminatus    
 
 
 
 
The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Natural England - Birklands and Bilhaugh SSSI & Birklands West and Ollerton Corner SSSI, Nottinghamshire Saproxylic invertebrate survey, Natural England Field Unit, April-October 2018. Sherwood Forest Invertebrate Directory 2014. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Tony Drane. Trevor Pendleton. Bob Merritt. Natural England - Invertebrate Site Register 2006. Brian Wetton.

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Updated November 2022
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