Crpyptophagus scanicus

This 2.1mm beetle was quite tricky to ID. Although I caught it in 2022 I discovered the specimen hiding among my Latridiidae specimens after I'd identified the Cryptophagus denticulatus from 2023. Compared to that I felt the side tooth on the pronotum wasn't so far forward, judging it to be only slightly in front of the middle. That being so it keyed to scanicus and as I think that's the most frequent Cryptophagus in Norfolk that's probably not too controversial an ID (though always happy to be challenged). I'd have much preferred it to have been a male so I could have confirmed it genitalically, but it was a female. The spermatheca was photographed just in case it proves useful at some point, but I'm not aware of differences between the species.

female Crpyptophagus scanicus showing pronotum (2 views), antenna, elytral hairs and spermatheca, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 11th August 2022