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Species Account for Scybalicus oblongiusculus

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Scybalicus oblongiusculus  (Dejean, 1829)
Coleoptera: Carabidae

Scybalicus oblongiusculus Copyright: Peter Harvey

 
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Taxonomic group: beetles (Coleoptera) - Available county data

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Status: NR;VU

Essex RDB: Listed
Records: 73
First Record: 2002
Latest Record: 2023

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

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Essex Red Data List comment
Discovered in South Essex in 2002.

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The ground beetle Scybalicus oblongiusculus was considered by coleopterists to be extinct in the UK until a single specimen was found by P.R. Harvey at West Canvey in 2002 (Harvey, 2002) and West Thurrock PFA Lagoons in 2005 (Harvey, 2005). All previous records had been from the south coast of Dorset, where it was last recorded in 1926 with an unsubstantiated record from Portland Bill in 1951 (Luff, 1998). Despite further work at the West Canvey site in 2003 no more specimens were found, and the discovery of the species in numbers in 2006 at two sites near Tilbury is the first confirmed presence of breeding populations in the region and is important in establishing that the beetle's occurrence is not as a vagrant. These sites are clearly an important node for the species, and these populations deserve further research. References

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

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Broad Habitat Data (based on 34 records with habitat information)

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Structural Habitat Data (based on 33 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 73 records with habitat detail and method information)

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