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Curtonotus aulicus
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.
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A seed-eating species, commonest in dry waste places and dry grassland or arable land where it lives under stones.
July to October
It is a nocturnal, feeding on seeds of Compositae (Daisy family).
Common throughout Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 70 VC55 records for this species up to March 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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