Curtonotus aulicus

Description

A moderate-sized beetle (11-15mm) with a black or dark red-brown body. Legs red to mid-brown legs but femora and tibia may be darkened at their tips. The pronotum is strongly contracted and sinuate to the sharp rear angles, with a wide side border where they meet a ridge at the edge of the foveae.

Identification difficulty

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Recording advice

A good quality image may be sufficient, otherwise explain how the beetle was identified.

Habitat

A seed-eating species, commonest in dry waste places and dry grassland or arable land where it lives under stones.

When to see it

July to October

Life History

It is a nocturnal, feeding on seeds of Compositae (Daisy family).

UK Status

Common throughout Britain.

VC55 Status

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 70 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2020+ | 2015-2019 | pre-2015

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Species profile

Species group:
Beetles
Kingdom:
Animalia
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Carabidae
Records on NatureSpot:
11
First record:
01/07/1992 (Jon Daws)
Last record:
02/08/2023 (Nicholls, David)

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