Steve Lane
My total:
7935
Year I started recording:
1986
Last updated on:
23rd April, 2023
About me:
Self-employed Invertebrate Surveyor, living in north-west Norfolk.
Linkedin profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelanecoventry
Primary interest is British Coleoptera.
Other interests include swimming, music and birding.
Age:
My bogey species:
Otter
My grippers:
Spiders: Philodromus fallax and Ceratinopsis romana; Diptera: Oxycera leonina, Aves: Purple Swamphen, Rufous Bush-Robin, Hemiptera: Arocephalus languidus (Suffolk, 2nd British population), Coleoptera: Chrysomela vigintipunctata (new to Britain), Silvanus recticollis (new to Britain), Harpalus calceatus (1st in Britain for donkey's years), Rhinusa neta, Gonioctena fornicata (Essex), Meligethes nanus (Norfolk), Choleva elongata (Norfolk), Amara majuscula (Norfolk), Cryptocephalus exiguus (East Anglia), Procas granulicollis (Suffolk), Silpha obscura (Suffolk), Paromalus parallelepipedus (Suffolk), Panagaeus cruxmajor (Norfolk and Suffolk), Tanysphyrus ater (Norfolk), Galeruca laticollis (Norfolk), Philonthus mannerheimi (Norfolk and Scotland), Philonthus confinis (Norfolk), Ceutorhynchus thomsoni (Warwickshire), Zeugophora flavicollis (Warwickshire), Amara famelica (Warwickshire), Tychius crassirostris (Warwickshire) and Atomaria rubricollis (Norfolk and Warwickshire), Microptilium palustre and Ptilium affine (Norfolk)
Latest addition:
29 additions, best being alpine swift, long-billed dowitcher, the soldierfly Odontomyia ornata, the dandelion Taraxacum inopinatum and the beetles Bagous diglyptus (first in Britain for over 100 years), Stilbus atomarius, Atheta pilicornis and Oxypoda carbonaria - all Norfolk 2023.
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