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Nettle Runner Officer of the Wild Empire Registered: September 2006 Location: Dinnington, S Yorks Posts: 605	North Anston (NAPT) 25 May 2009 Found on new nature reserve formed from old coal mining spoil heap. I decided on Dictoptera sp because of the pronotum, but lacking information to get to sp. level.
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oxycera

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Registered: June 2007
Location: Barnsley
Posts: 1,198

Tue May 26, 2009 5:01pm

this is one of the common soldier-beetles

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Nettle Runner

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Registered: September 2006
Location: Dinnington, S Yorks
Posts: 605

Wed May 27, 2009 1:34pm

Thanks oxycera. I have been re-looking at this image ever since I posted, thinking that I had it wrong.

I have been searching for a similar species amongst Cantharis, but the closest I could come up with was C. livida, but was not entirely satisfied with that for an ID.

I will get it renamed. Thanks for looking

Les

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BrianCambs
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Registered: November 2009
Location: Cambridgeshire; also regularly in Yorkshire
Posts: 25

Thu November 12, 2009 2:18pm

Nice pic! I think you're right with Cantharis livida - I don't think any of the other pale Cantharis have the blackish outer third to the hind thighs. There's a guide to soldier-beetles on my local wildlife trust's website:

http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/document...daeKeys_v3.pdf

Not the best time of year to try learning them, sadly!

Brian

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