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Species Account for Odacantha melanura

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Odacantha melanura  (Linnaeus, 1767)
Coleoptera: Carabidae

Odacantha melanura

 
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Taxonomic group: beetles (Coleoptera) - Available county data

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Status: NS

Essex RDB: Listed
Records: 11
First Record: 2000
Latest Record: 2019

1992-on hectads: 6
Pre-1992 hectads: 0
Total hectads: 6

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Essex Red Data List comment
Essex 1950-1969 record/s; VC18 pre-1970 record/s.

Species text
The ground beetle Odacantha melanura is attractively patterned in red and metallic blue. There are widely distributed records in southern and eastern England and South Wales, but many records in Luff (1998) are pre-1970 and only a single modern record is shown in Essex for TQ78, the same 10km square as Pitsea Marshes. The species is probably predatory and is found in fens, marshes, broads, grazing levels and the margins of standing water. It is predominantly associated with reed in reed beds, where it can be found under the outer, dead sheathing leaves of the flowering stems. Also amongst bulrushes, particularly in the dead stems. Threates include falling water tables because of water abstraction and water tables should be maintained at high levels. Water bodies should be isolated from sources of eutrophication and pollution (Hyman & Parsons, 1992). References

Species text last edited on Tue Mar 20th 2007 by user 3

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Broad Habitat Data (based on 3 records with habitat information)

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Structural Habitat Data (based on 3 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 11 records with habitat detail and method information)

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