Dasytes plumbeus
3.5 to 4.5 mm. Elongate, dark green with metallic sheen. Both long, erect hairs and flat pubescent on dorsal surface. Elytra wider at the base than the pronotum. Femora are black but tibiae and tarsi are pale.
The adults are often found visiting flowers.
Late spring and summer. Peaking June-July.
Widespread and fairly frequent in England and Wales.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 29 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
22 June 2017
David Nicholls
Watermead Country Park
14 June 2023
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
03 June 2017
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
03 June 2017
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
03 June 2017
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Melyridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 03/06/2017 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 04/07/2023 (Cooper, Barbara)
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David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
03 June 2017
