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Oxytelus fulvipesObserver
jhbrattonDescription
Found in litter layer of coppiced willows by marsh. Habitat shown in last photo. Basal antennal segments red should rule out Anotylus rugosus.
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Leistus fulvibarbisObserver
jhbrattonDescription
Broad edge to pronotum suggests spinibarbis but overall shape of pronotum is more fulvibarbis. A teneral female. Length 8 mm so that doesn't help.
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Brown Groundbug (Drymus brunneus)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
The leg photo is a front leg, to show single spine under the femur.
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Amphipods (Order Amphipoda)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
First three photos are of it alive, the rest pickled. Last one - habitat, marine rock pool. Very fast swimmer. I think not Gammaridae because no spines on urosomes.
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Hydryphantes ruberObserver
jhbrattonDescription
H. ruber is very similar to H. planus but planus has not been recorded from Britain.
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Megacyclops viridisObserver
jhbrattonDescription
From a shallow seasonal pool under willows. It keys to Cyclops using Gurney's 1933 book. Very fine comb of tiny hairs on the final antennule segments. Has some characters of strenuus and some of vicinus: furcae about 4x as long as wide and somites 4 and 5 not expanded would fit strenuus. Spermatophores were handlebar moustache pattern, as in Gurney's fig. 1520. But leg spine formula is 2 3 ? 3 (I didn't look at leg 3), and inner apical seta on furca is more than 2x length of outer, which fit vicinus.
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Mites and Ticks (Subclass Acari)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
On a leg of Orchestia gammarellus.
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Mediterranean Beach Hopper (Orchestia mediterranea)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Curvy palm to gnathopod 2. Unevenly round outline to carpus of pereopod 7.
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Genus EmpriaObserver
jhbrattonDescription
It is a good fit for Empria excisa but an expert opinion would be very welcome. One problem is, although the clypeus is deeply concave, I can't see the central tooth.
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Genus OrchestiaObserver
jhbrattonDescription
Abundant in the driftline. I'd expect Orchestia gammarellus here, but in this one the merus and carpus of leg seven are not broad. Immature?
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Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Sieved from Ascophyllum near top of shore. More or less full strength seawater here. Pleotelson granulose, with a hint of two rows of tubercles but presumably not as prominent as in L. hookeri, since I see these in many rugicauda. Propodus of front leg with at least one long seta arising next to what Jacobs calls the rostro-distal spine, but I couldn't photograph it.
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Genus JaeraObserver
jhbrattonDescription
I caught 11 Jaera, all females unfortunately. Most were slatey grey but two were banded. Here is one of them. Has the colour pattern any significance? Maybe recently moulted?
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Common Haircap Moss (Polytrichum commune)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Growing in a Sphagnum lawn. Longest stem in second photo is 23 cm.
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Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Identified using the Jacobs 1987 key. Not very successful at photographing the setae on the first leg. It had only two lateral setae, as in Jacobs' fig. 16D.
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Cicadula intermediaObserver
jhbrattonDescription
Swept from Carex. Length of this male to tip of wings is 4.5 mm. Females found with it are 5.2 mm to tip of ovipositor.
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Genus AcericerusObserver
jhbrattonDescription
It was on Corylus but Acer pseudoplatanus nearby.
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Bank Haircap Moss (Polytrichum formosum)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Strong pale ridge on underside of leaves.
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Lathrobium elongatumObserver
jhbrattonDescription
8 mm long. It keys to L. elongatum. Final tergite in last photo. But it is short-winged which the Lott & Anderson RES Handbook suggests is unusual for this species.
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Observer
jhbrattonDescription
The reticulations on the elytra are visible if you zoom in on the third photo.
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Wetland Groundbug (Pachybrachius fracticollis)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Hairs on pronotum, but curved, not erect. No basal spine on front femora, but there is one in the basal half.
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Flea Beetles (Tribe Alticini)Observer
jhbrattonDescription
Is this Longitarsus? I can't key it to anything else, but the hind tarsus is not particularly long.
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Heterocerus fusculusObserver
jhbrattonDescription
From a newly-dug shallow pond, not yet on the aerial photos. Femora dark. Genitalia (second photo) 0.7 mm long.