Sepedophilus marshami
A very small (5 mm) Rove Beetle. It is shaped like a tear drop with the head at the wider end. It has a blackish body with a wide red central band.
A ground dwelling species, often found in ants nests in damp rotting stumps and fallen branches, also found in leaf litter, grass roots moss etc.
Peak activity is in summer
Associated with ants nests.
Under recorded but believed to be common throughout lowland Britain
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 104 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
28 March 2019
specimen examined on M69 Island Sapcote SP 4635 9382 (taken 9.4.2010).JPG)
Graham Calow
M69 Island, Sapcote
09 April 2010
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
28 March 2019
specimen examined
 on M69 Island Sapcote SP 4635 9382 (taken 9.4.2010).JPG)
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Staphylinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 12
- First record:
- 01/05/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 28/03/2019 (Calow, Graham)
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