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Found in grassland on Red Fescue. Dolerus picipes is extremely similar to D. niger and D. nigratus especially but there is a shiny unpunctured area adjacent to the sulci posterior to the ocelli.

Workings out:

There's 35 species of Dolerus in Britain of which only 11 are black and found in dry grassy places:

• Dolerus aeneus x (is slim and has a bronzy sheen)
• Dolerus anthracinus x (black with a blue-green tinge and covered in dark hairs)
• Dolerus asper - (hairs on top of the head are shorter than the diameter of an ocellus)
• Dolerus brevicornis -
• Dolerus fumosus - (legs slightly brown)
• Dolerus niger /
• Dolerus nigratus -
• Dolerus nitens x
• Dolerus picipes
• Dolerus possilensis
• Dolerus varispinus