| One of over
60 UK species of Click Beetles, Ctenicera cuprea
has to rank as one of the most colourful species. There
are two colour forms, with the named form C. cuprea
f.aeruginosus being entirely metallic purple and
green. With a UK distribution of records predominantly
from sites north of a line stretching from the Severn
Estuary to The Wash, records of this beetle in
Nottinghamshire are rare. The NBN Gateway lists old
records from Wollaton Park and one from the 1990's
labelled as SK56. The beetles illustrated were among a
total of three found on grass and low vegetation, at the
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust's Rainworth Heath reserve
in early June 2014. |
