3 beetles for ID Please

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Hi,
I have 3 beetles for ID please. Photos taken in East Sussex.

What Ladybird Is this? A 10-spot? It looked about the right size for a 2-spot.


Is this Rutpela maculata
If so is it a form.


What Click beetle is this?


Thanks Dave

[charlieb]

Yup, 2 is Rutpela maculata; they are quite variable - have a look at http://www.thewcg.org.uk/Cerambycidae/0140G.htm

[Jenny W]

How big was the Click?

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Thanks Paul, charlieb.

Jenny, It was bigger than most other Clicks I see around here. I am guessing, but would say around 20mm.

Dave

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Beetles Hi Dave check this link out, thee seems to be a whole host of this genus of beetles,and just to make things even more difficult the colors and the markings vary alot, but it is one one these!!!!
Sorry I cant be any more exact...... that's No2 by the way.....
Stewart.........

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The Click beetle is Athous haemorrhoidalis Stewart......

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Thanks Stewart

[Jenny W]

The Click isn't Athous haemorrhoidalis - although they do vary a bit, they are bicoloured, with a blackish pronotum and noticeably brown elytra. The size and particularly pronotum shape is also putting me off any Athous species. As you say at 20mm, that suggests one of the larger of the British Clicks.

At that size, shape and all black colouration I would suggest Hemicrepidius hirtus.

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Thanks Jenny
Athous haemorrhoidalis did not convince me.
Hemicrepidius hirtus look much more like it.
Dave