WildBristol.uk - Discovering Wildlife in Bristol

Common and widespread throughout the UK. Habitat includes: Surface soil material such as leaf litter in places such as gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, woodland, scrub, hedgerows etc. Seen: all year round.

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1st antennal segment is pale and the 2nd partly darkened. The mesosternum (the area of the abdominal underside in front of the middle legs) bears a pair of obvious curved tubercles in males and a pair of smaller inconspicuous tubercles in females. The sides of the pronotum are keeled and have a large and obvious pale spot just behind the middle. Adults may be brachypterous (small wings) or macropterous (large wings). Length: 3.9 - 4.6 mm.