Tristan Bantock
My total:
2665
Year I started recording:
1986
Last updated on:
20th June, 2023
About me:
Background in ecology and general natural history, former birder and keen moth-er. Now mostly focused on other insect orders, in particular Hemiptera and Coleoptera (these are the only totals currently listed)
Age:
My bogey species:
Tarts ticks include Goshawk, December Moth, Sprawler, probably loads more.
My most wanted:
Rhopalus rufus, Eurydema dominulus, Metalimnus formosus, Doratura impudica + loads of beetles (eg Emus, Callistus)
My grippers:
Prostemma guttula, Acompus pallipes, Stichoglossa semirufa. Various things which others may not yet have caught up with include Stictoleptura cordigera, Stenus intermedius, Psammotettix alienus, Macropsis megerlei, Rhopalopyx elongata, Orientus ishidae, Enedreytes hilaris
Latest addition:
2022-23 highlights Polydrusus inustus, Penestragania apicalis, Dendroxena quadrimaculata, Amara strenua, Paraphotistus nigricornis, Bagous argillaceus, Triplax lacordairii, Paradromius longiceps, Brachinus sclopeta
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