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Species Account for Cercyon tristis

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Cercyon tristis (Illiger, 1801)
Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae

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Taxonomic group: beetles (Coleoptera) - Available county data

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Essex RDB: Listed

Records: 27

First Record: 1987

Latest Record: 2016

1992-on hectads: 6

Pre-1992 hectads: 2

Total hectads: 8

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Essex Red Data List comment
Essex Post-1969 record/s; VC18 1970-on record/s; VC19 1970-on record/s.

Species text
This is a scavenging water beetle found in decaying reed litter in shallow water. The Recorder species account states that it is commoner in the north, also occurring in relict fen sites in the south. References

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