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Beetles – Lycidae

Order Coleoptera – Beetles

   Superfamily Elateroidea
      Family Lycidae – Crimson Beetles
         Genera – Dictyopyera, Platycis, Pyropterus

Platycis minutus mating pair, Sherwood Forest CP. Notts.
Platycis minutus, Sherwood Forest CP, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.
Platycis minutus, Treswell Wood, Notts.

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Sunday 26th April 2026 to Rossington Colliery Tip 21 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Monday 20th April 2026 to Broomhill Flash 10:30am 14 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 8 April 2026 to Owston at 1.30 pm 7 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 3rd April 2026 at 6.30pm Thorpe Marsh nature reserve. 1 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 26th March at Parklands Club 7-9.30pm. 24 March 2026

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Lioocoris tripusulatus - NWT Idle Valley. Gortyna flavago - Frosted Orange - Kirk Smeaton

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Silver-washed Fritillary Lasius flavus, Clumber Park Lady's-slipper Orchid (Cypripedium calceolus), Gait Barrows NNR, Lancs. Fig 1 Black-headed Gulls, RSPB Old Moor. Cilix glaucoma - Chinese Character, Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield. Gannet (Morus bassanus), RSPB Bempton Cliffs Favonius quercus - Purple-hairstreak, Austerfield. Colotis pennaria - Feathered Thorn, Cusworth Lane, Doncaster Tholera decimalis - Feathered Gothic, Austerfield.
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