Stenurella melanura
A small (6 to 10 mm) longhorn beetle. The elytra appears a golden tawny brown fading to black, all other parts including head and legs are black.
Well wooded areas, parks and meadows where they will visit a range of flowering plants.
Between May and September.
Larvae bore longitudinal or undulating galleries in the sapwood of slender branches, trunks or decaying stumps, more especially in damp areas.
Widespread in England, particularly in the south, less common elsewhere.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. The Ketton record of 6th July 2013 is the first in VC55 since 1907. There were only 5 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015 and only 2 of those came in the last 100 years.
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
06 July 2013
male
Charlotte Mills
Cribbs Meadow
12 June 2015
female
David Nicholls
Bloody Oaks
02 July 2015
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Cerambycidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 06/07/2013 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 13/06/2022 (Sexton, Timothy)
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AJ Cann
Bloody Oaks
21 June 2015
AJ Cann
Bloody Oaks
21 June 2015
