Friday 21 January 2011

Isomira murina

I took this on 14/6/10 at the Lodge hoping it might be a Larch Ladybird, but I'm pretty sure it's not. An id still eludes me, perhaps one of the leaf beetles - can anybody help? It's small, about 5-6mm.
Expert concensus from various sources: Isomira murina - thanks to all.

4 comments:

sarah said...

This is Isomira murina, a member of the Tenebrionidae (det: P.Kirby)

Nigel Willits said...

Isomira semiflava looks like an even better match with darker pronotum, but is it a UK species?

Nigel Willits said...

Various experts have concurred with Isomira murina. A lot of internet images labelled as that species seem to show the pronotum more brown than black, which suggests they have been misidentified. Apparently I.murina almost always has black pronotum.

Porcupinetaxi said...

I didn't know about this bug.