Species Account for Cryptocephalus sexpunctatus
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Cryptocephalus sexpunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
a pot beetle
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
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Taxonomic group: beetles (Coleoptera) - Available county data
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Status: EN;NR;Section 41 Priority Species
Essex RDB: Listed
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Essex 1900-1949 record/s; VC18 pre-1970 record/s; VC19 pre-1970 record/s.
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The first known Essex record comes from Maldon Wood near Weeley Heath, recorded by W. Harwood in 1908.
Desmond Cox recorded this species several times in the St John's area of Colchester in the 1940s. More specifically, one specimen now in the Field Club collection (ex-Nigel Cuming) bears the location label "Edale, St Johns". This was Desmond's house on Ipswich Road, Colchester. In a note in Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine (1948, p. 185) he refers to finding this beetle on Hazel in "two nearby woodlands". It is tempting to suggest that this perhaps refers to the woods now in High Woods Country Park, the now largely lost East Wood or the equally fragmented Magdalen Wood. Survey of these woods might yet yield new specimens.
The only recent record is from Grays Gorge in south Essex, where Yvonne Couch recorded it on 3 June 2023. References
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