Cortinicara gibbosa
This seems to be by far the commonest member of the Latridiidae family.
This was caught in a vane trap.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 12th April 2024
This was on an Pedunculate Oak leaf, found inside the roll of an unidentified leaf mine.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa showing fore tibia, Bintree Mill (Norfolk, UK), 17th September 2022
These were beaten from Yew.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa showing median lobe (5 views), St Mary's churchyard, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 28th February 2022
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seond male Cortinicara gibbosa showing fore tibia and median lobe, St Mary's churchyard, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 28th February 2022
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third male Cortinicara gibbosa showing fore tibia, St Mary's churchyard, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 28th February 2022
These were beaten from Mistletoe in an orchard.
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male and female Cortinicara gibbosa, County School Station, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 23rd March 2022
This was in a pitfall trap.
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female Cortinicara gibbosa, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 17th-18th May 2023
This was in a pheremone lure trap (with no pheremone lure set).
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female Cortinicara gibbosa, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 6th September 2023
This was beaten from hazel. It was 1.3mm long.
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Cortinicara gibbosa, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 28th March 2025
This came to light in a meadow. I thought the pronotum was widest in front of the middle but I wasn't convinced it only had five visible sternites. In the end I settled on gibbosa, partly because I think the texture of the head fits that better. If I keyed it past Cortinicara then given the proportions of the pronotum I think it would have to be Corticarina similata or lambiana which apart from being much less likely anyway, would also be in the wrong habitat. I'd not noticed those sensoria on the tergites before - I wonder if their size or position might be helpful in identifying these?
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Cortinicara gibbosa showing pronotum and sternites (before and after clearing and after with abdomen opened to the side showing tergites too), Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 28th March 2025
This was swept from low vegetation.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa, Ling Plantation, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 6th April 2024
This was beaten from Ivy.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa Elmham Park (Norfolk, UK), 26th September 2022
Antoher one beaten from Mistletoe.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa, County School Station, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 8th March 2025
This was beaten from a conifer.
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female Cortinicara gibbosa, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 19th October 2023
This was beaten from Field Maple.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 8th May 2020
This came to light in my garden moth trap.
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male Cortinicara gibbosa, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 18th August 2017
This was found in moss on a tree trunk.
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Cortinicara gibbosa, Beetley Common (Norfolk, UK), 12th March 2017