Swept this small and distinctive looking beetle from vegetation in woodland alongside a river near to Glen More / Loch Morlich on 30/05/2014 (cNH97550930). Approx 4mm long, and I thought it might be one of the Scraptiidae as it reminds me of Anaspis spp. but struggling to find a match. I'm sure it's not from a group that I have keys for. Does anyone recognise it, or able to point me the right way?
Mon, 02/06/2014 - 21:56
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Highland Beetle
Is it Abdera flexuosa? Was it near Alders?
Thanks Graeme - that certainly looks right and there are a couple of NBN dots not too far away from the site. It was a small area of mixed woodland, though still predominantly coniferous as you'd expect up there, but birch, rowan, alder and oak present.