Agriotes acuminatus
This is a brown click beetle, the head often appearing darker than the elytra. Ridges are visible running the length of the elytra. The legs and antennae are a light brown colour.
A wide range of habitats, predominantly broadleaved woodland but also agricultural land, grasslands and scrub and gardens.
Adults emerge in May and can be present into July.
Larvae develop in soil, feeding on the roots of a range of grass species.
Widely distributed and fairly frequent in England and Wales. Very few, scattered records from Scotland.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 39 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
05 June 2013
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
24 April 2014
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Croft, near Croft Pasture
13 May 2019
Specimen examined
Graham Calow
Croft, near Croft Pasture
13 May 2019
Specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Elateridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 01/05/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 13/05/2019 (Calow, Graham)
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