Dromius meridionalis
A 6 or 7mm long red brown beetle.
Well wooded areas.
Usually seen between April and October.
It is an arboreal species found on a variety of tree species such as Sycamore, Horse-chestnut and Spruce where it can often be located under bark.
Fairly frequent and widespread in the southern half of Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 26 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
Mark Skevington
Whetstone Garden
07 August 2020
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
24 July 2012
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
07 June 2018
Specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Carabidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 24/07/2012 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 07/08/2020 (Skevington, Mark)
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